Provenance: work hardening
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- Term "work hardening" created
Jul 20, 2026 at 4:51 AM UTC
- Definition 1 · revision 1 writtenChristopher Rauch
Jul 20, 2026 at 8:51 AM UTC
Initial contribution The strengthening of a metal by plastic deformation, caused by dislocation multiplication and entanglement.
- Definition 2 · revision 1 generated by AIgemma4:26brevision 72
Jul 20, 2026 at 8:51 AM UTC
AI-generated definition The process by which a ductile metal becomes harder and stronger as it is plastically deformed, occurring due to an increase in dislocation density and the subsequent entanglement of these dislocations, which restricts further lattice movem…
- Downvoted definition 1 · revision 1A community member
Jul 21, 2026 at 3:49 AM UTC
- Upvoted AI-authored definition 2 · revision 1A community member
Jul 21, 2026 at 3:49 AM UTC