Mechanical Properties of Solids

Application of Elastic Behavior of Material


  • Railway tracks and bridges declared unsafe after long use due to Elastic fatigue.
  • If the material breaking after Elastic limit it is called brittle material.
  • Brittle material is used to make Glass.
  • If the material breaking point and Elastic limit are far it is called ductile material.
  • Ductile material is used to make thin wires.
  • Elastic property of a material increase with addition of impurity.
  • Slow cooling of material after heating called Annealing.
  • For invar steel Elasticity is independent of temperature.
  • Springs are made of steel because it is more Elastic
  • Young's modulus of a material does not depend up on Dimensions of body but depends upon nature of material.
  • Young's modulus (Y) of a material is the ratio of linear stress to linear strain.
  • Shear modulus (n) is defined as the ratio of shear stress to shear strain.
  • Bulk modulus (k) is defined as the ratio of Bulk stress to bulk strain.
  • Y. nk are having same units = N/m2
  • When a wire is stretched young's modulus, When twisted rigidity modulus involved.

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1. For a beam with circular cross-section depression is given by \tt \delta=\frac{WL^{3}}{12\pi r^{4}Y}

2. Torque required to produce a unit twist in a solid shaft
 \tau_{solid}=\frac{\pi\eta\ r^{4}}{2l}

3. Torque required to produce a unit twist in a hollow shaft
\tau_{hollow}=\frac{\pi\eta(r_2^4-r_1^4)}{2l}