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Necking

Localized reduction in area of a specimen during tensile deformation. The narrowing, or constricting to a smaller cross-sectional area, which occurs while a test piece is being pulled. The narrowing of the diameter of a wire at the point at which a break is about to occur, as appears in tensile testing.

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