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Old 04-10-06 | 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by hyperRevue
I was always under the impression that unlike steel, aluminum will snap instead of bend.
Well, generally speaking, steel does have a longer plastic deformation region than aluminum and aluminum does have a larger region than CF. This is all generalisations however.
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