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Toughness
Toughness, in materials science and metallurgy, is the resistance to fracture of a material when suddenly stressed. It is defined as the amount of energy that a material can absorb before breaking, and can be found by finding the area (i.e., by taking the integral) underneath the stress-strain curve.
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