Bymaking a fewassumptions, wecancalculatethetruestress-straincurvebasedontheengineeringcurve, andsowecanavoidhavingtomeasuretheinstantaneouscross-sectionalareaduringthetensiletest.
Wecanrearrangethisequationtotheform L dividedby L0 minus 1, andwecanusethistoobtainanequationfortruestresswhichis a functionoftheengineeringstressandengineeringstrain, bothofwhichcaneasilybeobtainedfrom a tensiletest.