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• The slip plane and direction are indicated, respectively, by the angles and that they make with the tensile axis.

• We take the normal n of the plane that makes an angle

with the loading direction .

• The areas A1 and A are related by the angle . Area A is the projection of A1 onto the horizontal plane; thus, we can write

(11.7)

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