In engineering and materials science a stress strain curve for a material gives the relationship between stress and strain it is obtained by gradually applying load to a test coupon and measuring the deformation from which the stress and strain can be determined see tensile testing these curves reveal many of the properties of a material such as the young s modulus the yield strength.
Stress strain curve of metal ceramic polymers.
Tensile stress strain curves of nanocrystalline cu and ni with mean grain sizes of 26 and 28 nm respectively.
While some of the stress strain curves for polymers might look similar to ones for metals polymers are mechanically different than metals or ceramics.
Therefore it is used in many coating applications for example metal working industry.
A characteristic yield point is shown followed by a strength drop that breaks at low stress and high strain.
Given materials are ductile polymer ductile metal ceramic glass and natural rubber.
Now that you have been introduced to the mechanical behavior of ceramics please go to your e textbook and read more on this topic on pages 84 to 86 in chapter 4 of materials for today s world custom edition for penn state university.
Alloys ceramic and polymer thin films onto a wide range of substrate materials.
A highly elastic polymer may stretch over 10 times the original length before breaking while a metal might elastically stretch 10 of the original length elastically and may stretch.
Viscoelasticity is the property of materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic characteristics when undergoing deformation viscous materials like water resist shear flow and strain linearly with time when a stress is applied.
The utility of stress strain tests for design with polymeric materials can be greatly enhanced if tests are carried out over a wide range of temperatures and strain rates.
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Stress strain curve is the plot of stress and strain of a material or metal on the graph.
In this the stress is plotted on the y axis and its corresponding strain on the x axis.
For a ductile polymer one can consider the below mentioned graph as the engineering stress engineering strain curve.
Strain stress experiments polymers exhibit a wide variation of behavior in stress strain tests ranging from hard and brittle to ductile including yield and cold drawing.
Stress strain curves for metals ceramics and polymers objective we are interested about studying and comparing stress strain curves of metals ceramics and polymers.