Monday, November 6, 2023

Understanding Material Strength, Ductility, and Toughness

Strength vs toughness is such a subtle concept for my students to understand.

That isn't really a tough (sorry) thing to reason out. The two words are used somewhat interchangeably in the non-material science world. 

This video does a great job animating and showing the differences between those words and using the stress strain curve to do so. 

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