The melting point is one of the most consulted properties in the choice of a material, but also one of the most misunderstood. It's often confused with the maximum operating temperature or with softening. Furthermore, different parameters are sometimes compared, such as the melting point of metals and the HDT of polymers, as if they were equivalent. Understanding this quantity helps to choose the…
Elongation at break is one of the main parameters on material test certificates. It indicates how much a material deforms plastically before breaking under load and is a fundamental parameter for assessing its ductility . For the designer it's an essential piece of data: it makes it possible to distinguish materials that fail progressively, with visible deformation before breaking, from those tha…
