Mohr envelope
Engineering
noun
The bounding line of a series of Mohr circles drawn at different containing pressures for the stress on a body at the level at which it slips or fractures, the point at which a circle touches the line giving the plane along which slippage or fracturing occurs at a particular containing pressure.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America.
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