Ductility

ductility - derived from latin from ducere (pull, lead, lead) - is the ability or also the behavior of a material to be inclined under effect of outside forces to the plastic and thus durable deformation without with it material separations arise. Such a material is goodcoldly ductile: e.g. by deep-drawing, bending or straining.

  • In geology the term for rocks is used in particular the lower continental earth's crust, which under tectonic stress not inflexibly, but plastic to distort itself.
  • With the examination from bitumen a sample becomes inso-called Duktilometer clamped and pulled apart, until the bitumen thread developing thereby tears. The length of the thread at the time of tearing up is called ductility of the bitumen.

see also

break, tenacity, metallic connection, tear tenacity, firmness, hardness, density, Fusing temperature, material property

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