Mechanical Behaviour of Materials

Abstract

Material is the most important aspect of research in all engineering domains which give us an understanding of the real physical structure of various products and objects that we come across in our daily life. The behaviour of these various products in their service life is very important to analyse as it might not be desirable to have a product fail at the most unexpected time. In order to quantify these behaviour of material, various properties have been described in detail in Chap. 1 which is determined by running few material tests. The procedure for carrying out these tests, feasibility of these test to be able to run for different materials and the behaviour of the part to be tested are some of the aspects which have been explained in detail in this chapter. Material tests have been detailed in two major branches namely, destructible and non destructible tests. Few other fracture surface behaviour in ductile and brittle material upon application of loads higher than their fracture strength and responses for plastic deformation in the form of heat generation and build up of residual stresses are described in this chapter.