Materials Vocab

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Material Categories:

• Alloy
  
• Carbide
  
• Ceramics
  
• Composite
  
• Compound
  
• Elastomers
  
• Element
  
• Ferrous
  
• Metal
  
• Nitride
  
• Organic
  
• Oxide
  
• Polymer
  
• Thermoplastic
  
• Thermoset

Material Properties:

• Acoustical
  
• Brittle
  
• Chemical
  
• Composite
  
• Compression
  
• Creep
  
• Crystalline
  
• Density
  
• Dimensional
  
• Ductility
  
• Electrical
  
• Fatigue
  
• Force
  
• Fracture
  
• Grain Size
  
• Gravity
  
• Hardness
  
• Inclusion
  
• Load
  
• Magnetic
  
• Mechanical
  
• Optical
  
• Phase
  
• Physical
  
• Porosity
  
• Resistance
  
• Spatial Configuration
  
• Strain
  
• Stress
  
• Tensile
  
• Thermal
  
• Toughness
  

Be prepared for a quiz later this week!

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