One material property that is widely used and recognized is the strength of a material. But what does the word "strength" mean? "Strength" can have many meanings, so let us take a closer look at what ...

Strength, ductility and toughness are three very important, closely related material properties. The yield and ultimate strengths tell us how much stress a material can withstand, and are often ...

Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Lehigh University have developed a groundbreaking nanostructured ...

UDRI researchers perform dynamic material response analysis in the Dynamic Material Characterization Laboratory. We routinely use Split Hopkinson Bars (pictured above, left) to study the high strain ...

Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Lehigh University have developed a nanostructured copper alloy ...

The printed parts demonstrated yet again that a RepRap can produce parts that are at least equal in material strength to those produced by a proprietary 3D printer. But what about a difference in ...

Mechanical properties of materials constitute another major direction in SYNL, especially on strength-ductility synergy and fatigue of materials. Several mechanical modes have been proposed or ...

Product durability and reliability are now critical in today’s competitive manufacturing era. Across most industries, tensile ...