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Reverse plasticity

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Jan 6, 2011
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Can anyone help explain what reverse plasticity actually means?
I read an article somewhere where reverse plasticity was given as the the reason for why the elastic modulus deduced from the unloading curve after loading into the plastic range are higher than those from the regular tensile test elastic modulus.
 
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