Welcome to engineering, where we have MPa as a unit of stress and mm/mm as a unit of strain!
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bleistift2@feddit.de 1 year ago
That’s pressure.
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 1 year ago
azi@mander.xyz 1 year ago
mm/mm?? why not call it m/m?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because we’re precise!
Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Because practicality. Strain generally occurs across mm scales at most for most traditional tensile tests and relevant materials. Normally it’s actually much less than mm. Occasionally you see micrometers/micrometers.
azi@mander.xyz 1 year ago
How is it more practical when 1 m/m = 1 mm/mm = 1 μm/μm?
bleistift2@feddit.de 1 year ago
Why km/h (or mph) and not ft/year? Because the numbers have a nicer magnitude then.
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Doesn’t apply here, say for example i have a piece of steel with length 100mm and it stretches 10mm, is mm/mm the strain would be 0.1 mm/mm, in meters it would be 0.1m/m
Really strain is dimensionless but occasionally people add units
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was told that you also sometimes have four basis vectors in 3D
TheOakTree@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Agreed. Perhaps it was based on tensile stress? Tensile stress = deforming force / cross-sectional area
Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Yes. Stress is a measure of an object’s internal pressure.
einlander@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pushing down on me.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Pushing down on you.
bleistift2@feddit.de 1 year ago
no man ask for.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Under pressure that burns a building down