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principal strain axes

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | 254 words | Copyright

principal strain axes In a strained material, three mutually perpendicular axes (designated X, Y, and Z) which are parallel to the directions of greatest, intermediate, and least elongation, and which describe the state of strain at any particular point.

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