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Developed primarily for high-strength applications, these steels are usually heat-treated alloys that provide strengths at least equal to those of as-rolled steel. Heat-treated constructional alloy ...

In metallurgy, there's a concept called "yield strength". Like bending a paper clip that you can never quite return to its original shape, yield strength is the maximum stress you can apply to a ...