Fussbudget alert:
Stress is not the same as strain. It is strain that does us in, not stress. Strain occurs when stress goes beyond the point where the system can return reversibly to the pre-stressed state.
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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