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Breaking points

Started by Narf the Mouse, March 13, 2010, 03:35:30 AM

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Narf the Mouse

Where would I find the breaking points of various materials? Kilograms preferred.

Thanks.
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finarvyn

Your post is short and so I'm not certain, but what I think you want is the "tensile strength" of materials. That represents a force needed to break a material. It can be measured in three ways: compession, elongation, and sideways shear. These numbers tend to vary a little from one direction to another, but the basic order of magnitude tends to be the same for a given material so if you can find one you have a ballpark guess for the other two.

The kilogram is actually a measure of mass and not force, although on the earth there is a standard conversion between the two (1 kg weighs 9.8 Newtons).
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Narf the Mouse

The main problem with government is the difficulty of pressing charges against its directors.

Given a choice of two out of three M&Ms, the human brain subconsciously tries to justify the two M&Ms chosen as being superior to the M&M not chosen.