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Ductility refers to the
ability of a
material to
sustain significant plastic deformation before fracture.
Plastic deformation is the
permanent distortion...
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Ductile iron, also
known as
ductile cast iron,
nodular cast iron,
spheroidal graphite iron,
spheroidal graphite cast iron and SG iron, is a type of graphite-rich...
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Brittle fractures occur without any
apparent deformation before fracture.
Ductile fractures occur after visible deformation.
Fracture strength, or breaking...
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Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) is a form of
ductile iron that
enjoys high
strength and
ductility as a
result of its
microstructure controlled through heat...
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Ductile iron pipe is pipe made of
ductile cast iron
commonly used for
potable water transmission and distribution. This type of pipe is a
direct development...
- In
Earth science,
ductility refers to the
capacity of a rock to
deform to
large strains without macroscopic fracturing. Such
behavior may
occur in unlithified...
- The brittle-
ductile transition zone (hereafter the "transition zone") is the zone of the Earth's
crust that
marks the
transition from the upper, more...
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materials into two
broad categories; namely, the
ductile materials and the
brittle materials.: 51
Ductile materials,
including structural steel and many...
- the
ultimate tensile strength is
close to the
yield point,
whereas in
ductile materials, the
ultimate tensile strength can be higher. The
ultimate tensile...
- – July 6, 1992) was an
American metallurgical engineer and
inventor of
ductile iron.
Keith Millis grew up in Rensselaer, New York and
earned his Bachelor...
