Talk:Mechanical testing

• I have separated mechanical testing of materials, as opposed to structures ( i.e. where a scale or full-size structure such as a composite beam, bridge, aircraft wing, etc. is tested to destruction). Will require specialist knowledge to expand on structures.

• Do we attempt to correlate individual mechanical properties to the mechanical tests by which they are determined?

Mechanical test	Property	Symbol(s)	Notes
Tensile test	Young modulus	E	The gradient of the initial linear section of the derived stress-strain graph
Tensile test	Yield stress, Proof stress	Rp, σy
Tensile test	Ultimate tensile stress	Rm
Tensile test	% elongation to failure
Plane strain fracture toughness test	Plane strain fracture toughness	KIc
Vickers hardness test	Vickers hardness	HV