Plastic Deformation
Definition
Permanent material change that can extend beneath a stamped surface. Its distribution depends on the material and the processes applied. The affected region does not guarantee successful character restoration. Removal depth, later treatment and examination method can limit recovery.
- Context
- Material response
For example, stamping can affect material beneath the visible surface, but removal depth and later treatment still determine whether useful characters remain recoverable.
Related terms
- EBSD
- Electron backscatter diffraction, used to assess crystallographic information. EDS assesses characteristic X-ray energies for elemental information; the techniques answer different questions. Neither...
- Partial Restoration
- Supported recovery of some positions while others remain ambiguous or unreadable. Restoration can recover some physical characters while leaving others unresolved. Records...
- Tracing Inference
- Information derived from records or conventions, separate from physically observed recovered characters. Restoration can recover some physical characters while leaving others unresolved....