From my reading many years back, the term "elastic limit" really caught my attention and has stuck with me ever since that time. As I understand it, that is the point at which stress-induced deformation in a given material (in our case here -fluid steel or even the damascus family of steels) exceeds the material's ability to recover or rebound from that only split-second deformation impulse. Any bulge or even a full-scale burst caused by "hoop-stress" forces(?) which is a new term for me, is by definition an exceedence of a material's elastic limit. Am I stating or understanding this term correctly?
Last edited by Lloyd3; 01/25/20 10:14 AM.
