STRENGTH

OF
MATERIAL

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF
MATERIAL

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COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH
TENSILE STRENGTH
DUCTILITY
MALLEBILITY
FATIGUE
TOUGHNESS
HARDNESS
PLASTICITY

COMPRESSIVE
STRENGTH
Compressive strength: Maximum stress a
material can withstand before compressive
failure (MPa)Thecompressive strengthis the
capacity of amaterialor structure to withstand
loads tending to reduce size. It can be
measured by plotting applied force against
deformation in a testing machine.

TENSILE
STRENGTH

Tensile strength: Maximum tensile stress

a material can withstand before failure
(MPa). Ultimate tensile strength(UTS),
often shortened totensile strength(TS)
orultimate strengthis the maximum
stressthat a material can withstand while
being stretched or pulled before failing or
breaking.

DUCTILITY
Ductility: Ability of a material to
deform under tensile load (%
elongation). Ductilityis a solid
material's
ability
to
deform
undertensilestress; this is often
characterized by the material's
ability to be stretched into a wire

MALLEBILITY

Malleability:
The
similar
property, is a material's ability to
deform undercompressivestress;
this is often characterized by the
material's ability to form a thin
sheet by hammering or rolling

FATIGUE
Fatigue: Maximum stress a material
can withstand under repeated loading
(MPa). Fatigue limit,endurance
limit, andfatigue strengthare all
expressions used to describe a
property of materials

TOUGHNESS

Toughness: Energy absorbed by unit

area before the fracture of material.
Fracture toughnessis a property
which describes the ability of a
material containing a crack to resist
fracture, and is one of the most
important properties of any material.
The fracture toughness of a material
is determined at which a thin crack in
the material begins to grow. and is a

HARDNES
S Ability to withstand
Hardness:

surface indentation (e.g. Brinell

hardness number) Hardnessis a
measure of how resistantsolidmatter
is to various kinds of permanent
shape change when aforceis applied.
there are different measurements of
hardness:scratch
hardness,indentation
hardness,

PLASTICITY

Plasticity : Ability of a material to

undergo irreversible deformations.
.
plasticitydescribes
the
deformationof
a
material
undergoing
non-reversible
changes of shape in response to
applied forces.

IMPORTANT IMAGES

(A) BRITTLE FRACTURE

(B) DUCTILE FRACTURE
(C) COMPLETELY DUCTILE FRACTURE

ANY
QUESTIONS