internal stress

noun

(in metal or glass pieces, or the like) a stress existing within the material as a result of thermal changes, having been worked, or irregularity of molecular structure.

First recorded in 1905–10

The internal stress at any point is completely determined by the components P, U, T, but these are not principal stresses ( 7).

Such a body, when in such a state of internal stress, is sometimes described as “self-strained.”

Even on Earth newly-mined diamonds sometimes fly to pieces from internal stress.

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