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 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 ...

Mild steel - used for bike frames, car body panels and fixings (nuts, bolts, screws and nails) An alloy that is grey and smooth, rusts if not protected Ductile ... rusts easily Brittle if thin ...

Failure theories are used to predict when a material will fail due to static loading. They do this by comparing the stress ...

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 ...