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Hardening

1. The process by which a sudden change to the price of a commodity or futures contract slow and gradually corrects itself, bringing the price into alignment with fundamentals. See also: Reversion to the Mean.

2. A slow but steady rise in price for a futures market or contract.
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The higher shearing rate causes strain softening phenomenon and the lower shearing rate causes strain hardening of sample.
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The computer model of "Program Cabut-Serat Fraktur" represents the fracture phenomenon during the pull-out process, that is four stages of initial pre-slip, slip, transition, and strain hardening.
A computer modeling of fracture based pull-out of nylon 600 embedded in cementitious matrix
1] are observed, indicative of a very slight strain hardening, again attributed to its bimodal molecular weight distribution.
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Structure and strength properties of brazed joints of JS26NK cast nickel alloy: Part 2
They combine good melt strength and draw-down ratio with sag resistance and strain hardening.
Branched PVDF gains melt strength for film, blow molding, thermoforming
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In cyclic loading, the Ramberg-Osgood stress-strain relationship for the strain hardening exponent (n) and the strength coefficient (K) typically changes as the material hardens, or softens, until a stable state is reestablished.
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This method is applied to both strain hardening and strain rate dependent materials.
Self-similarity simplification approaches for the modeling and analysis of rockwell hardness indentation

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