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  2. Toughness - Wikipedia

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    Toughness as defined by the area under the stress–strain curve. In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing. [1] Toughness is the strength with which the material opposes rupture. One definition of material toughness is the amount of energy per unit ...

  3. Fracture toughness - Wikipedia

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    Fracture toughness. In materials science, fracture toughness is the critical stress intensity factor of a sharp crack where propagation of the crack suddenly becomes rapid and unlimited. A component's thickness affects the constraint conditions at the tip of a crack with thin components having plane stress conditions and thick components having ...

  4. Flexural strength - Wikipedia

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    Flexural strength, also known as modulus of rupture, or bend strength, or transverse rupture strength is a material property, defined as the stress in a material just before it yields in a flexure test. [1] The transverse bending test is most frequently employed, in which a specimen having either a circular or rectangular cross-section is bent ...

  5. Fracture mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Fracture mechanics is the field of mechanics concerned with the study of the propagation of cracks in materials. It uses methods of analytical solid mechanics to calculate the driving force on a crack and those of experimental solid mechanics to characterize the material's resistance to fracture. Theoretically, the stress ahead of a sharp crack ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Resilience (materials science) - Wikipedia

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    Modulus of resilience (U r) is measured in a unit of joule per cubic meter (J·m −3) in the SI system, i.e. elastical deformation energy per surface of test specimen (merely for gauge-length part). Like the unit of tensile toughness ( U T ), the unit of resilience can be easily calculated by using area underneath the stress–strain ( σ ...

  8. Stress–strain curve - Wikipedia

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    Toughness as defined by the area under the stress–strain curve. Materials that are both strong and ductile are classified as tough. Toughness is a material property defined as the area under the stress-strain curve. Toughness can be determined by integrating the stress-strain curve. [3]

  9. Shear modulus - Wikipedia

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    G = τ / γ = E / [2 (1 + ν)] Shear strain. In materials science, shear modulus or modulus of rigidity, denoted by G, or sometimes S or μ, is a measure of the elastic shear stiffness of a material and is defined as the ratio of shear stress to the shear strain: [1] where. = shear stress. is the force which acts. is the area on which the force ...