Henri Edouard Tresca
French scientist
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plasticity of metallic solids
- In mechanics of solids: Continuum plasticity theory
…for metallic materials begins with Henri Edouard Tresca in 1864. His experiments on the compression and indentation of metals led him to propose that this type of plasticity, in contrast to that in soils, was essentially independent of the average normal stress in the material and dependent only on shear…
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