6/29/2014 Relationship between tensile strength and hardness of a material?

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Relationship between tensile strength
and hardness of a material?
From what I understand of what I've read on some websites,
materials with a high hardness have a high tensile strength and I
found some equations which (I think) show there is a ...show more
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Jim answered 4 years ago
There are no fully reliable mathematical relationships. Harder materials
tend to be stronger because strong and tight chemical bonding promote
both. However, one key problem is, as you've noted, brittle materials can
have low tensile strength. The way to properly consider these materials,
however, is
that they are, in fact, strong. However, in bulk form, they are susceptible
to severe stress amplification at defect sites (e.g., cracks). At the defect
the localized stress is far greater than the average stress per area.
Brittle materials are much more susceptible to stress amplification under
tension, than compression.
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ardavan_sj answered 4 years ago
what you asked isn't something to explain in couple of lines .
the relationship is Hardness = 3 x yield stress
if you ask why then I refer you to contact mechanism in tribology. when
the indentor is forcing over the sample, the surface under sample
deforms both elastically and plastically. plastic deformation begins when
mean pressure is 1.1 yield stress. and fully plastic deformation is when
mean pressure is equal to 3X yield stress. after that if you increase the
force, pressure doesn't increase, as contact area between indentor and
sample increases proportional to force. the mean pressure when
deformation is fully plastic is Hardness.
This is the basis of indentation hardness testing.
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