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  2. Strength of materials - Wikipedia

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    Strength of materials. The field of strength of materials (also called mechanics of materials) typically refers to various methods of calculating the stresses and strains in structural members, such as beams, columns, and shafts. The methods employed to predict the response of a structure under loading and its susceptibility to various failure ...

  3. Young's modulus - Wikipedia

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    Young's modulus is defined as the ratio of the stress (force per unit area) applied to the object and the resulting axial strain (displacement or deformation) in the linear elastic region of the material. Although Young's modulus is named after the 19th-century British scientist Thomas Young, the concept was developed in 1727 by Leonhard Euler.

  4. Rule of mixtures - Wikipedia

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    In materials science, a general rule of mixtures is a weighted mean used to predict various properties of a composite material . [1][2][3] It provides a theoretical upper- and lower-bound on properties such as the elastic modulus, ultimate tensile strength, thermal conductivity, and electrical conductivity. [3]

  5. Viscoelasticity - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In materials science and continuum mechanics, viscoelasticity is the property of materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic characteristics when undergoing deformation. Viscous materials, like water, resist both shear flow and strain linearly with time when a stress is applied.

  6. Elasticity (physics) - Wikipedia

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    e. In physics and materials science, elasticity is the ability of a body to resist a distorting influence and to return to its original size and shape when that influence or force is removed. Solid objects will deform when adequate loads are applied to them; if the material is elastic, the object will return to its initial shape and size after ...

  7. Elastic properties of the elements (data page) - Wikipedia

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    Chemical data page. Elastic propertiesdescribe the reversible deformation (elastic response) of a material to an applied stress. They are a subset of the material propertiesthat provide a quantitative description of the characteristics of a material, like its strength. Material properties are most often characterized by a set of numerical ...

  8. Elastomer - Wikipedia

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    An elastomer is a polymer with viscoelasticity (i.e. both viscosity and elasticity) and with weak intermolecular forces, generally low Young's modulus (E) and high failure strain compared with other materials. [1] The term, a portmanteau of elastic polymer, [2] is often used interchangeably with rubber, although the latter is preferred when ...

  9. Resilience (materials science) - Wikipedia

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    In material science, resilience is the ability of a material to absorb energy when it is deformed elastically, and release that energy upon unloading. Proof resilience is defined as the maximum energy that can be absorbed up to the elastic limit, without creating a permanent distortion. The modulus of resilience is defined as the maximum energy ...