Maintaining an even temperature along the bend line is critical. Inconsistent heating results in varying material properties, ...

What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food and beverage packaging can serve as markers of the Anthropocene ...

Watch MSE Solder Creep Wire Drop video The load applied to the wire (4.8 kg) is only about one tenth of the load required to get immediate plastic deformation. The experiment shows, however, that ...

Water, a substance familiar to all, continues to surprise scientists with its diverse forms under extreme conditions. One ...

The seawater desalination based on solar-driven interfacial evaporation has emerged as a promising technique to alleviate the ...

I DESCRIBED recently a form of hardness micro-tester which permits light loads to be applied to a diamond indenter of pyramidal form as a means of determining the hardness figures of minute ...

Elastic deformation continues until the yield stress of the material if it is ductile, after which the material plastically deforms. A brittle material fractures before any plastic deformation occurs ...

There is no reason at present for supposing that the plastic deformation of transparent crystals differs fundamentally from that of other crystalline substances, and one may reasonably expect that ...

When mechanical and structural engineers design machines, bridges, and buildings, they calculate loads, stresses, and deformation of metal, steel, concrete, glass, wood, and plastic to find the ...

An enormous variety of ``visco-elastic'' fluids exist that obey more complicated constitutive relationships, such as nonlinear relationships, similar to plastic deformation of solids, or history ...