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What is the difference between maximum principal strain and maximum in-plane principal strain?

If my memory serves me correctly, the "max principal strain" is the maximum strain caused by the out-of-plane stresses, for which shear stress is zero. The maximum in-plane strain, on the ...
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What is the difference between maximum principal strain and maximum in-plane principal strain?

Nature doesn't care how we assign our coordinate system, so we have to look for a special reason to be concerned with a certain elasticity parameter in a certain plane that we've defined. Perhaps we ...
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