Abstract
Certain elastic solids when subjected to sufficiently high loads abruptly change their mechanical properties and yet continue to respond elastically to further loading. In one dimension such mechanically induced elastic phase transitions may be due to a nonmonotonic stress-strain relationship. This appears to be particularly true for certain mineral crystals, such as calcite.
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