During a tensile experiment on a ductile material, the specimen will begin to neck prior to failure. Why are true stress and true strain difficult to calculate after the onset of necking?
What tools could you use to measure true stress and true strain throughout the whole test?

Aheat pump using refrigerant-134a heats a house by using underground water at 8°c as the heat source. the house is losing heat at a rate of 60,000 kj/h. the refrigerant enters the compressor at 280 kpa and 0°c, and it leaves at 1 mpa and 60°c. the refrigerant exits the condenser at 30°c. determine: (a) the power input to the heat pump, (b) the rate of heat absorption from the water, and (c) the increase in electric power input if an electric resistance heater is used instead of a heat pump