Some materials (especially plastics) tend to have an elastic region which is nonlinear in itself.
It means that if you applied a load with a value inferior to the yield stress and then you unload your model, the model will effectively come back to its original shape… but the stress and strain won’t follow a linear relation of proportionality.
Read this article for more details about nonlinear material models:
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