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| Directly proportional to the system size or the amount of material in the system. |
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| Does not depend on the system size or the amount of material in the system |
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| Ductile Structural Failure |
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preferred mode:
Yielding =>
warning of problems
load transfer to other components
can carry failure load |
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| Brittle Structural Failure |
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bad mode:
Buckling
Fracture
=> can lead to sudden collapse
=> little load carrying capacity after failure |
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| deformation under carrying load |
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| response to electrical field |
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| response to magnetic field |
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| response to heat transfer |
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| response to chemical reactivity |
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| Materials behave the same in all directions |
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| A material’s directional dependence of a physical property. |
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| The difficulty of removing a material by the cutting action of a hard tool to produce complex shapes. |
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| The difficulty by which a material can be forced into a new shape in the solid state by use of pressure. |
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| The difficulty by which a material can be melted or poured into a mold. |
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| The difficulty by which a polymer can be forced into a desired shape using pressure. |
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| The difficulty by which a material can be joined with another piece of similar material. |
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