Notes

on
“Mechanical properties of
materials”

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 Introduction
A material's property (or material property) is
an intensive property of some material, i.e.
a physical property that does not depend on the
amount of the material.

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Often materials are subject to forces (loads)
when they are used. Mechanical engineers
calculate those forces and material scientists
how materials deform (elongate, compress,
twist) or break as a function of applied load,
time, temperature, and other conditions.

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 Various Mechanical Properties
 Anelasticity  Tensile strength
 Ductility  Toughness
 Elastic deformation  Yielding
 Engineering strain  Yield strength
 Engineering stress  Fatigue
 Hardness  Creep
 Modulus of elasticity  Stiffness
 Plastic deformation  Strength
 Poisson’s ratio
 Proportional limit
 Shear

Here We will see the change in physical behavior of material

due to external changes on it.

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 Anelasticity

• Here the behavior is elastic but not the stress-

strain curve is not immediately reversible. It
takes a while for the strain to return to zero.
• The effect is normally small for metals but can
be significant for polymers.

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 Brittleness
 Brittleness of a material indicates that how easily
it gets fractured when it is subjected to a force or
load.
 When a brittle material is subjected to a stress it
observes very less energy and gets fractures
without significant strain.
 Brittleness is converse to ductility of material.
Brittleness of material is temperature dependent.
Some metals which are ductile at normal
temperature become brittle at low temperature.
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 Ductility
Ductility is a property of a solid material
which indicates that how easily a material gets
deformed under tensile stress.
Ductility is often categorized by the ability of
material to get stretched into a wire by pulling
or drawing.
This mechanical property is also an aspect of
plasticity of material and is temperature
dependent. With rise in temperature, the
ductility of material increases.

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Tensile test of an AlMgSi alloy. The local necking and the cup and cone
fracture surfaces are typical for ductile metals.
 Malleability
Malleability is a property of solid materials which
indicates that how easily a material gets deformed
under compressive stress.
Malleability is often categorized by the ability of
material to be formed in the form of a thin sheet
by hammering or rolling.
This mechanical property is an aspect of plasticity
of material.
Malleability of material is temperature dependent.
With rise in temperature, the malleability of
material increases.

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 Elastic deformation

• Elastic deformation. When the stress is

removed, the material returns to the dimension
it had before the load was applied.

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 Engineering strain

• There is a change in dimensions, or

deformation elongation, đL as a result of a
tensile or compressive stress. To enable
comparison with specimens of different length,
the elongation is also normalized, this time to
the length L. This is called strain, e.
• e = đL/L

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 Engineering and Engineering Stress
When one applies a constant tensile force the
material will break after reaching the tensile
strength.
The material starts necking (the transverse area
decreases) but the stress cannot increase
beyond sTS.
The ratio of the force to the initial area, what we
normally do, is called the engineering stress. If
the ratio is to the actual area (that changes with
stress) one obtains the true stress.

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 Hardness
 It is the ability of a material to resist to permanent shape change due
to external stress.
There are various measure of hardness – Scratch Hardness,
Indentation Hardness and Rebound Hardness.
 Scratch Hardness Scratch Hardness is the ability of materials to the
oppose the scratches to outer surface layer due to external force.
 Indentation Hardness It is the ability of materials to oppose the dent
due to punch of external hard and sharp objects.
 Rebound Hardness Rebound hardness is also called as dynamic
hardness. It is determined by the height of “bounce” of a diamond
tipped hammer dropped from a fixed height on the material.

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 Hardness is the resistance to plastic deformation
(e.g., a local dent or scratch).
 Thus, it is a measure of plastic deformation, as is
the tensile strength, so they are well correlated.
 Historically, it was measured on an empirically
scale, determined by the ability of a material to
scratch another, diamond being the hardest and
talc the softer. Now we use standard tests, where a
ball, or point is pressed into a material and the
size of the dent is measured.
 There are a few different hardness tests:
Rockwell, Brinell, Vickers, etc. They are popular
because they are easy and non-destructive (except
for the small dent).

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 Hardenability
 It is the ability of a material to attain the
hardness by heat treatment processing. It is
determined by the depth up to which the material
becomes hard.
 The SI unit of Hardenability is meter (similar to
length).
 Hardenability of material is inversely
proportional to the weld-ability of material.

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 Poisson’s ratio

Materials subject to tension shrink laterally.

Those subject to compression, bulge. The ratio
of lateral and axial strains is called
the Poisson's ratio n.
n = elateral/eaxial
The elastic modulus, shear modulus and
Poisson's ratio are related by E = 2G(1+n)

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 Modulus of elasticity
• In tensile tests, if the deformation is elastic, the stress-
strain relationship is called Hooke's law:
• s=Ee
• That is, E is the slope of the stress-strain curve. E
is Young's modulus or modulus of elasticity.

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 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.
 It 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 forces are applied on them. If the
material is elastic, the object will return to its
initial shape and size when these forces are
removed.

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 Tensile strength
 Yield point. If the stress is too large, the strain deviates from
being proportional to the stress. The point at which this
happens is the yield point because there the material yields,
deforming permanently (plastically).
 Yield stress. Hooke's law is not valid beyond the yield point.
The stress at the yield point is called yield stress, and is an
important measure of the mechanical properties of materials.
In practice, the yield stress is chosen as that causing a
permanent strain of 0.002 (strain offset, Fig. 6.9.)
 The yield stress measures the resistance to plastic deformation.
 The reason for plastic deformation, in normal materials, is not
that the atomic bond is stretched beyond repair, but the motion
of dislocations, which involves breaking and reforming bonds.
 Plastic deformation is caused by the motion of dislocations.

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 Tensile strength. When stress continues in the
plastic regime, the stress-strain passes through a
maximum, called the tensile strength (sTS) , and
then falls as the material starts to develop
a neck and it finally breaks at the fracture point .
 Note that it is called strength, not stress, but the
units are the same, MPa.
 For structural applications, the yield stress is
usually a more important property than the tensile
strength, since once the it is passed, the structure
has deformed beyond acceptable limits.

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 Toughness
 It is the ability of a material to absorb the energy and
gets plastically deformed without fracturing. Its
numerical value is determined by the amount of energy
per unit volume. Its unit is Joule/ m3. Value of
toughness of a material can be determined by stress-
strain characteristics of a material. For good toughness,
materials should have good strength as well as ductility.
 For example: brittle materials, having good strength but
limited ductility are not tough enough. Conversely,
materials having good ductility but low strength are
also not tough enough. Therefore, to be tough, a
material should be capable to withstand both high stress
and strain.

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 Yielding

• For structural applications, the yield stress is

usually a more important property than the
tensile strength, since once the it is passed, the
structure has deformed beyond acceptable
limits.

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 Fatigue
 Fatigue is the weakening of material caused by the
repeated loading of the material.
 When a material is subjected to cyclic loading, and
loading greater than certain threshold value but much
below the strength of material (ultimate tensile strength
limit or yield stress limit), microscopic cracks begin to
form at grain boundaries and interfaces. Eventually the
crack reaches to a critical size.
 This crack propagates suddenly and the structure gets
fractured. The shape of structure affects the fatigue very
much. Square holes and sharp corners lead to elevated
stresses where the fatigue crack initiates.

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 Fatigue limit, endurance limit, and fatigue
strength are all expressions used to describe a property
of materials: the amplitude (or range) of cyclic stress
that can be applied to the material without
causing fatigue failure.
 Ferrous alloys and titanium alloys have a distinct limit,
an amplitude below which there appears to be no
number of cycles that will cause failure. Other
structural metals such as aluminium and copper do not
have a distinct limit and will eventually fail even from
small stress amplitudes. In these cases, a number of
cycles (usually 107) is chosen to represent the fatigue
life of the material.
 Fatigue limit is used in plotting S-N curves (Strength
Vs Number of Cycles)

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 Creep
Creep is the property of a material which
indicates the tendency of material to move
slowly and deform permanently under the
influence of external mechanical stress.
It results due to long time exposure to large
external mechanical stress with in limit of
yielding.
Creep is more severe in material that are
subjected to heat for long time. Slip in material
is a plane with high density of atoms.

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 It is the tendency of a solid material to move slowly or deform
permanently under the influence of mechanical stresses. It can occur
as a result of long-term exposure to high levels of stress that are still
below the yield strength of the material. Creep is more severe in
materials that are subjected to heat for long periods, and generally
increases as they near their melting point.
 The rate of deformation is a function of the material's properties,
exposure time, exposure temperature and the applied structural load.
Depending on the magnitude of the applied stress and its duration,
the deformation may become so large that a component can no
longer perform its function — for example creep of a turbine blade
will cause the blade to contact the casing, resulting in the failure of
the blade. Creep is usually of concern to engineers and metallurgists
when evaluating components that operate under high stresses or high
temperatures. Creep is a deformation mechanism that may or may
not constitute a failure mode.

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 Stiffness
Ability of an object to resist deformation in response to an applied force;
rigidity; complementary to flexibility

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 Strength

• It is the property of a material which opposes

the deformation or breakdown of material in
presence of external forces or load.
• Materials which we finalize for our
engineering products, must have suitable
mechanical strength to be capable to work
under different mechanical forces or loads.

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 Resilience
 Capacity to absorb energy elastically. The energy
per unit volume is the area under the strain-stress
curve in the elastic region.
 Resilience is the ability of material to absorb the energy
when it is deformed elastically by applying stress and
release the energy when stress is removed.
 Proof resilience is defined as the maximum energy that
can be absorbed without permanent deformation.
 The modulus of resilience is defined as the maximum
energy that can be absorbed per unit volume
without permanent deformation. It can be determined
by integrating the stress-strain cure from zero to elastic
limit. Its unit is joule/m3.
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• Capacity to absorb energy elastically. The energy per unit
volume is the area under the strain-stress curve in the
elastic region.
• The area under the linear portion of a stress–strain curve is
the resilience of the material
• 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 that can be
absorbed per unit volume without creating a permanent
distortion.
• It can be calculated by integrating the stress–strain
curve from zero to the elastic limit. In uniaxial tension,
under the assumptions of linear elasticity,

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