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$Graph showing typical stress-strain curves for brittle, moderately ductile, and ductile rock materials, with X marks indicating fracture points for each type. Axes display stress versus strain, and annotations highlight yield points, permanent deformation, and recoverable regions.$

Figure 4: Principal stresses (see text).

Figure 3: The force TdS acting on an arbitrarily inclined face (whose outward unit normal vector is n). Stress vectors T(−1), T(−2), and T(−3) act on the faces perpendicular to the coordinate axes.

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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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