List of materials properties

Corrosion resistance

materials property is an intensive, often quantitative,

property of some material. Quantitative properties may
be used as a metric by which the benets of one material versus another can be assessed, thereby aiding in
materials selection.

Hygroscopy
pH

A property may be a constant or may be a function of one

or more independent variables, such as temperature. Materials properties often vary to some degree according to
the direction in the material in which they are measured, a
condition referred to as anisotropy. Materials properties
that relate two dierent physical phenomena often behave linearly (or approximately so) in a given operating
range, and may then be modeled as a constant for that
range. This linearization can signicantly simplify the
dierential constitutive equations that the property describes.

Reactivity
Specic internal surface area
Surface energy
Surface tension

4 Electrical properties

Some materials properties are used in relevant equations

to predict the attributes of a system a priori. For example, if a material of a known specic heat gains or
loses a known amount of heat, the temperature change
of that material can be determined. Materials properties are most reliably measured by standardized test methods. Many such test methods have been documented by
their respective user communities and published through
ASTM International.

Dielectric constant
Dielectric strength
Electrical conductivity
Permittivity
Piezoelectric constants

Acoustical properties

Seebeck coecient

Acoustical absorption
Speed of sound

5 Environmental properties
Embodied energy

Atomic properties

Embodied water

Atomic mass
Atomic number - applies to pure elements only

6 Magnetic properties

Atomic weight - applies to individual isotopes or

specic mixtures of isotopes of a given element.

Curie temperature
Diamagnetism

Chemical properties

Hysteresis
Main article: Chemical property
Permeability
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Manufacturing properties
Castability
Extruding temperature and pressure
Hardness
Machinability rating
Machining speeds and feeds

Mechanical properties
Compressive strength : stress a material can withstand before compressive failure (MPa)
Creep : the slow and gradual deformation of an object with respect to time

Yield strength : The stress at which a material starts

to yield (MPa)
Youngs modulus : Ratio of linear stress to linear
strain (MPa)
Coecient of friction (also depends on surface nish)
Coecient of restitution
Surface roughness

9 Optical properties
Absorptivity
Birefringence
Color

Ductility : Ability of a material to deform under tensile load (% elongation)

Luminosity

Fatigue limit : Maximum stress a material can withstand under repeated loading (MPa)

Reectivity

Photosensitivity

Flexural modulus

Refractive index

Flexural strength

Scattering

Fracture toughness : Energy absorbed by unit area

before the fracture of material (J/m^2)

Transmittance

Hardness : Ability to withstand surface indentation

(e.g. Brinnell hardness number)
Plasticity (physics) : Ability of a material to undergo
irreversible deformations (-)
Poissons ratio : Ratio of lateral strain to axial strain
(no units)
Resilience : Ability of a material to absorb energy
when it is deformed elastically (M Pa)
Shear modulus : Ratio of shear stress to shear strain
(M Pa)
Shear strain :in the angle between two perpendicular
lines in a plane
Shear strength : Maximum shear stress a material
can withstand
Specic modulus : Modulus per unit volume (M Pa/
m^3)
Specic strength : Strength per unit density (Nm/kg)
Specic weight : Weight per unit volume (N/m^3)
Tensile strength : Maximum tensile stress a material
can withstand before failure (MPa)

10 Radiological properties
Neutron cross-section
Specic activity

11 Thermal properties
Autoignition temperature
Binary phase diagram
Boiling point
Coecient of thermal expansion
Critical temperature
Curie point
Emissivity
Eutectic point
Flammability
Flash point
Glass transition temperature

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Heat of fusion
Heat of vaporization
Inversion temperature
Melting point
Phase diagram
Pyrophoricity
Solidus
Specic heat
Thermal conductivity
Thermal diusivity
Thermal expansion
Seebeck coecient
Triple point
Vapor pressure
Vicat softening point

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See also

Chemical property
Physical property
Supervenience
Thermodynamic properties

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