Brittleness
By musaib
@musaib (84)
India
March 3, 2007 4:57am CST
it is the property of materials by virtue of which, it will fracture without any appreciable deformation.Thus, it is the opposite of ductility. Cast iron and glass are the examples of brittle materials. A material with less than 5% elongation is considered to be a brittle one.
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