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Strain Measurements and Mapping

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The concepts of strain and stress were introduced in Chap. 15. Direct measurements of strain and stress always rely on the measurement of deformation in a structure.

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  2. Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

    John C. H. Spence

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Zuo, J.M., Spence, J.C.H. (2017). Strain Measurements and Mapping. In: Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6607-3_16

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