In the analysis of nonlinear structural systems, the stress-strain (force-deflection moment-rotation) relationship must be represented mathematically. The most simple representation is a series of straight lines. An alternative procedure is to fit a smooth analytical expression to the expression is the Ramberg-Osgood three-parameter polynomial which gives strain explicitly in terms of stress.
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Richard et al. (1975) studied this question.