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Mechanical Properties

The document defines and describes various mechanical properties of materials including brittleness, bulk modulus, coefficient of restitution, compressive strength, creep, ductility, durability, elasticity, fatigue limit, flexibility, flexural modulus, flexural strength, fracture toughness, hardness, plasticity, Poisson's ratio, resilience, shear modulus, shear strength, size, slip, specific modulus, specific strength, specific weight, stiffness, surface roughness, tensile strength, toughness, viscosity, yield strength, and Young's modulus.

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Mechanical Properties

The document defines and describes various mechanical properties of materials including brittleness, bulk modulus, coefficient of restitution, compressive strength, creep, ductility, durability, elasticity, fatigue limit, flexibility, flexural modulus, flexural strength, fracture toughness, hardness, plasticity, Poisson's ratio, resilience, shear modulus, shear strength, size, slip, specific modulus, specific strength, specific weight, stiffness, surface roughness, tensile strength, toughness, viscosity, yield strength, and Young's modulus.

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Mechanical properties[edit]

 Brittleness: Ability of a material to break or shatter without significant deformation when under
stress; opposite of plasticity,examples:glass,concrete,cast iron,ceramics etc.
 Bulk modulus: Ratio of pressure to volumetric compression (GPa) or ratio of the infinitesimal
pressure increase to the resulting relative decrease of the volume. brass has highest bulk
modulus of 116 GPa.
 Coefficient of restitution:the ratio of the final to initial relative velocity between two objects after
they collide. Range : 0-1, 1 for perfectly elastic collision.
 Compressive strength: Maximum stress a material can withstand before compressive failure
(MPa)
 Creep: The slow and gradual deformation of an object with respect to time
 Ductility: Ability of a material to deform under tensile load (% elongation)
 Durability: Ability to withstand wear, pressure, or damage; hard-wearing.
 Elasticity: Ability of a body to resist a distorting influence or stress and to return to its original
size and shape when the stress is removed
 Fatigue limit: Maximum stress a material can withstand under repeated loading (MPa)
 Flexibility: Ability of an object to bend or deform in response to an applied force; pliability;
complementary to stiffness
 Flexural modulus
 Flexural strength : The stresses in a material just before it yields.
 Fracture toughness: Ability of a material containing a crack to resist fracture (J/m^2)
 Hardness: Ability to withstand surface indentation and scratching (e.g. Brinnell hardness
number)
 Plasticity: Ability of a material to undergo irreversible or permanent deformations without
breaking or rupturing; opposite of brittleness
 Poisson's ratio: Ratio of lateral strain to axial strain (no units)
 Resilience: Ability of a material to absorb energy when it is deformed elastically (MPa);
combination of strength and elasticity
 Shear modulus: Ratio of shear stress to shear strain (MPa)
 Shear strength: Maximum shear stress a material can withstand
 Size
 Slip: A tendency of a material's particles to undergo plastic deformation due to a dislocation
motion within the material. Common in Crystals.
 Specific modulus: Modulus per unit volume (MPa/m^3)
 Specific strength: Strength per unit density (Nm/kg)
 Specific weight: Weight per unit volume (N/m^3)
 Stiffness: Ability of an object to resist deformation in response to an applied force; rigidity;
complementary to flexibility
 Surface roughness:the deviations in the direction of the normal vector of a real surface from its
ideal form.
 Tensile strength: Maximum tensile stress of a material can withstand before failure (MPa)
 Toughness: Ability of a material to absorb energy (or withstand shock) and plastically deform
without fracturing (or rupturing); a material's resistance to fracture when stressed; combination of
strength and plasticity
 Viscosity: A fluid's resistance to gradual deformation by tensile or shear stress; thickness
 Yield strength: The stress at which a material starts to yield plastically (MPa)
 Young's modulus: Ratio of linear stress to linear strain (MPa)
 Strength of materials (relation of various strengths)

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