Strength vs. Hardness vs. Toughness - Engineering Stack Exchange
Feb 12, 2019 · 3 for this question: "What is the difference between strength, hardness and toughness in materials?" i have searched and have found these following definitions Strength refers to resistance …
mechanical engineering - How do I determine what hardness to …
Jan 14, 2020 · The steel tire could easily be any hardness you want. It would be poor judgement to mess with the rolling element bearing hardness. The heat-treatment has been developed over …
What is the significance of brittle materials and why do we use them?
Apr 6, 2022 · We have studied that cast iron which is a brittle material is used in automobile cylinder block, head, housing flywheel etc. If it is a brittle material then why it is used there? Another term that …
materials - Durometer and Shore - Engineering Stack Exchange
Sep 9, 2020 · Can someone help me understand durometer and shore hardness testing with relation to rubber hardness? My understanding is durometer measures hardness, shore is a different type of …
How do you plot a relation between hardness and strain
Dec 13, 2022 · How do I plot the relation between hardness of a material and compressive strain knowing the stress-strain curve and indentation size in Brinell's hardness test
What material property (Young's modulus, HRC hardness, Max yield ...
Feb 22, 2022 · Given similar strength and hardness spec, materials that work-harden can be much worse to work with. If milling or drilling, some materials form nasty chips compared to others. Some …
strength - What is the physical reasoning behind metal becoming ...
Sep 23, 2021 · The effects of heating-quenching a metal is explained below Transformation hardening is the heat-quench-tempering heat treatment cycle addressed earlier in this article. It's used to adjust …
Surface Finish and Strength - Engineering Stack Exchange
Jan 11, 2019 · There are a lot of different types of strength to describe steel (Compressive, tensile, yield, ultimate, fatigue, hardness, toughness, etc). Surface finish affects some of these strength …
heat treatment - Is hardened steel better than tough steel ...
3 In steel hardness is closely related to tensile strength so a hardened steel will have both high hardness and high tensile strength. Toughness is a bit more difficult to quantify than strength but in general is …
At what temperature do I risk altering the structure of steel?
If I have structural or tool steel that has been treated to some standard (ASTM, SAE, ISO -- e.g., for hardness) but I don't know the details of the treatment, is there a "safe" temperature below which I …