That property of a material by virtue of which it can absorb work. This is a measure of the amount of energy that must be used to cause a sample in a tensile tester to rupture. It is a measure of the area under the stress-strain curve
That property of a material by virtue of which it can absorb work. This is a measure of the amount of energy that must be used to cause a sample in a tensile tester to rupture. It is a measure of the area under the stress-strain curve