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Home » Strength of Materials » Strain

Simple Strain

Also known as unit deformation, strain is the ratio of the change in length caused by the applied force, to the original length.
 

Simple strain

 

$\varepsilon = \dfrac{\delta}{L}$

where δ is the deformation and L is the original length, thus ε is dimensionless.
 

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