Materials Keywords

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Breaking Stress/Tensile Stress
Max. stress that can be applied before fracture.
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Brittle
Material that shows no plastic deformation beyond elastic limit.
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Compressive Strain
Amount of deformation per unit length of material.
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Compressive Stress
Compressive force per unit area.
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Density
Mass per unit volume.
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Ductile
Material that shows plastic deformation before failure under tension (can also be pulled into wires).
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Elastic Limit
Point beyond which the material starts to behave plastically.
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Hard
Materials that resist plastic deformation by surface indentation.
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Limit of proportionality
Stress is proportional to strain up to this point.
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Stiff
Measure of resistance of a material to deformation by a tensile force.
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Stiffness
The gradient of a force-extension graph; also relates to resistance to change of shape of material.
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Malleable
Materials that show large plastic deformation under compression.
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Strength
Ability of a material to withstand stress.
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Tensile Strain
Extension per unit length of material subject to tensile force.
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Tensile Stress
Tensile force per unit area.
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Tough
Materials that are able to withstand impact forces without breaking and have a high density.
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Yield Point
Stress beyond which a material becomes plastically deformed.
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Young's Modulus
Ratio of stress to strain and also the gradient of stress-strain graph.
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Crystal grains
Regions of regularity in a lattice.
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Grain Boundaries
Two regions of grains meeting at angles.
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Dislocation
Gaps in a material's crystalline structure due to misaligned atoms.
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Work hardening
Strengthing a metal through plastic deformation which increases the number of grains, making it harder.
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Elasticity
Measure of ability of a material to restore its shape after deformation.
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Polycrystalline
A material that has many grains oriented differently to each other but with an ordered structure within each grain (have some regions of regularity).
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Crystalline
A material that has fixed dislocations.
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Amorphous
A non-crystalline material which lacks order in layers of particles, caused by rapid cooling. Slower cooling leads to a crystalline structure.
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Material that shows no plastic deformation beyond elastic limit.

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Brittle

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Amount of deformation per unit length of material.

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Compressive force per unit area.

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Mass per unit volume.

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