Because of their very large molecular weight (~ 10 6) polymers behave differently from the low molecular weight metals during plastic deformation leading to a ductile fracture. The top diagram shows a ...

Elastic deformation continues until the yield stress of the material if it is ductile, after which the material plastically deforms. A brittle material fractures before any plastic deformation occurs ...

Watch MSE Solder Creep Wire Drop video The load applied to the wire (4.8 kg) is only about one tenth of the load required to get immediate plastic deformation. The experiment shows, however, that ...

Instead, Professor Guy Libourel and Dr. Anthony Seret, of France's Laboratoire Lagrange at the Université Côte d'Azur, suggest that both plastic deformation and fragmentation of chondrules can ...

A rubber band undergoes elastic deformation when stretched a little. A metal drinks can undergoes plastic deformation when it is squashed.

The two primary properties derived from nanoindentation are hardness and elastic modulus. Hardness is a measure of a material's resistance to plastic deformation and is calculated as the maximum load ...