brittle (material that cracks or fractures easily without much stretching, such as glass) and ductile (material that can be drawn, stretched, or compressed into a deformed shape without breaking ...

The presence of interphase boundaries in pearlite and the hard-brittle behavior of cementite makes the material less ductile than ferrite.

In fact, such a variation of indentation hardness occurs for most ductile and brittle materials even if there is no cracking around indentations. Sometimes this behaviour is referred to as ...

This method facilitates characterisation of ductile to brittle fracture for ferritic steels. The book "Fracture Toughness of Engineering Materials - Estimation and Application" was written by Kim ...

Hard but brittle, less malleable than mild steel, good electrical and thermal conductivity Taps and tools, eg screwdrivers and chisels Low-carbon steel (mild steel) Ductile and tough, easy to form ...

In brittle materials the ultimate tensile strength is close to the yield point, whereas in ductile materials the ultimate tensile strength can be higher. The ultimate tensile strength is usually found ...

The hypoeutectoid steel is the most ductile and the ductility has decreased by a factor of three for the eutectoid alloy. In hyper-eutectoid alloys the additional, brittle cementite on the pearlite ...