Young's modulus
Young's modulus (or Young modulus) is a mechanical property of
Although Young's modulus is named after the 19th-century British scientist Thomas Young, the concept was developed in 1727 by Leonhard Euler. The first experiments that used the concept of Young's modulus in its modern form were performed by the Italian scientist Giordano Riccati in 1782, pre-dating Young's work by 25 years.[1] The term modulus is derived from the Latin root term modus which means measure.
Definition
Young's modulus, , quantifies the relationship between tensile or compressive stress (force per unit area) and axial strain (proportional deformation) in the linear elastic region of a material:[2]
Young's modulus is commonly measured in the
Examples:
- Rubber(increasing pressure: length increases quickly, meaning low )
- Aluminium (increasing pressure: length increases slowly, meaning high )
Linear elasticity
A solid material undergoes
At near-zero stress and strain, the stress–strain curve is
Related but distinct properties
Material stiffness is a distinct property from the following:
- Strength: maximum amount of stress that material can withstand while staying in the elastic (reversible) deformation regime;
- Geometric stiffness: a global characteristic of the body that depends on its shape, and not only on the local properties of the material; for instance, an I-beamhas a higher bending stiffness than a rod of the same material for a given mass per length;
- Hardness: relative resistance of the material's surface to penetration by a harder body;
- Toughness: amount of energy that a material can absorb before fracture.
Usage
Young's modulus enables the calculation of the change in the dimension of a bar made of an
Other elastic calculations usually require the use of one additional elastic property, such as the shear modulus , bulk modulus , and Poisson's ratio . Any two of these parameters are sufficient to fully describe elasticity in an isotropic material. For homogeneous isotropic materials simple relations exist between elastic constants that allow calculating them all as long as two are known:
Linear versus non-linear
Young's modulus represents the factor of proportionality in Hooke's law, which relates the stress and the strain. However, Hooke's law is only valid under the assumption of an elastic and linear response. Any real material will eventually fail and break when stretched over a very large distance or with a very large force; however, all solid materials exhibit nearly Hookean behavior for small enough strains or stresses. If the range over which Hooke's law is valid is large enough compared to the typical stress that one expects to apply to the material, the material is said to be linear. Otherwise (if the typical stress one would apply is outside the linear range), the material is said to be non-linear.
In
Directional materials
Young's modulus is not always the same in all orientations of a material. Most metals and ceramics, along with many other materials, are
Temperature dependence
The Young's modulus of metals varies with the temperature and can be realized through the change in the interatomic bonding of the atoms, and hence its change is found to be dependent on the change in the work function of the metal. Although classically, this change is predicted through fitting and without a clear underlying mechanism (for example, the Watchman's formula), the Rahemi-Li model[4] demonstrates how the change in the electron work function leads to change in the Young's modulus of metals and predicts this variation with calculable parameters, using the generalization of the Lennard-Jones potential to solids. In general, as the temperature increases, the Young's modulus decreases via where the electron work function varies with the temperature as and is a calculable material property which is dependent on the crystal structure (for example, BCC, FCC). is the electron work function at T=0 and is constant throughout the change.
Calculation
Young's modulus E, is calculated by dividing the
- is the Young's modulus (modulus of elasticity)
- is the force exerted on an object under tension;
- is the actual cross-sectional area, which equals the area of the cross-section perpendicular to the applied force;
- is the amount by which the length of the object changes ( is positive if the material is stretched, and negative when the material is compressed);
- is the original length of the object.
Force exerted by stretched or contracted material
Young's modulus of a material can be used to calculate the force it exerts under specific strain.
where is the force exerted by the material when contracted or stretched by .
Hooke's law for a stretched wire can be derived from this formula:
where it comes in saturation
- and
But note that the elasticity of coiled springs comes from shear modulus, not Young's modulus. [citation needed]
Elastic potential energy
The
now by explicating the intensive variables:
This means that the elastic potential energy density (that is, per unit volume) is given by:
or, in simple notation, for a linear elastic material: , since the strain is defined .
In a nonlinear elastic material the Young's modulus is a function of the strain, so the second equivalence no longer holds, and the elastic energy is not a quadratic function of the strain:
Examples
Young's modulus can vary somewhat due to differences in sample composition and test method. The rate of deformation has the greatest impact on the data collected, especially in polymers. The values here are approximate and only meant for relative comparison.
Material | Young's modulus (GPa) | Megapound per square inch ( psi)[5]
|
Ref. |
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Aluminium (13Al) | 68 | 9.86 | [6][7][8][9][10][11] |
Amino-acid molecular crystals | 21–44 | 3.05–6.38 | [12] |
Aramid (for example, Kevlar) | 70.5–112.4 | 10.2–16.3 | [13] |
Aromatic peptide-nanospheres | 230–275 | 33.4–39.9 | [14] |
Aromatic peptide-nanotubes | 19–27 | 2.76–3.92 | [15][16] |
Bacteriophage capsids | 1–3 | 0.145–0.435 | [17] |
Beryllium (4Be) | 287 | 41.6 | [18] |
Bone, human cortical | 14 | 2.03 | [19] |
Brass | 106 | 15.4 | [20] |
Bronze | 112 | 16.2 | [21] |
Carbon nitride (CN2) | 822 | 119 | [22] |
Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP), 50/50 fibre/matrix, biaxial fabric
|
30–50 | 4.35–7.25 | [23] |
Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP), 70/30 fibre/matrix, unidirectional, along fibre
|
181 | 26.3 | [24] |
Cobalt-chrome (CoCr) | 230 | 33.4 | [25] |
Copper (Cu), annealed | 110 | 16 | [26] |
Diamond (C), synthetic | 1050–1210 | 152–175 | [27] |
Diatom frustules, largely silicic acid | 0.35–2.77 | 0.051–0.058 | [28] |
Flax fiber | 58 | 8.41 | [29] |
Float glass | 47.7–83.6 | 6.92–12.1 | [30] |
Glass-reinforced polyester (GRP) | 17.2 | 2.49 | [31] |
Gold | 77.2 | 11.2 | [32] |
Graphene | 1050 | 152 | [33] |
Hemp fiber | 35 | 5.08 | [34] |
High-density polyethylene (HDPE) | 0.97–1.38 | 0.141–0.2 | [35] |
High-strength concrete | 30 | 4.35 | [36] |
Lead (82Pb), chemical | 13 | 1.89 | [11] |
Low-density polyethylene (LDPE), molded | 0.228 | 0.0331 | [37] |
Magnesium alloy | 45.2 | 6.56 | [38] |
Medium-density fiberboard (MDF) | 4 | 0.58 | [39] |
Molybdenum (Mo), annealed | 330 | 47.9 | [40][7][8][9][10][11] |
Monel | 180 | 26.1 | [11] |
Mother-of-pearl (largely calcium carbonate) | 70 | 10.2 | [41] |
Nickel (28Ni), commercial | 200 | 29 | [11] |
Nylon 66 | 2.93 | 0.425 | [42] |
Osmium (76Os) | 525–562 | 76.1–81.5 | [43] |
Osmium nitride (OsN2) | 194.99–396.44 | 28.3–57.5 | [44] |
Polycarbonate (PC) | 2.2 | 0.319 | [45] |
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), unreinforced | 3.14 | 0.455 | [46] |
Polypropylene (PP), molded | 1.68 | 0.244 | [47] |
Polystyrene, crystal | 2.5–3.5 | 0.363–0.508 | [48] |
Polystyrene, foam | 0.0025–0.007 | 0.000363–0.00102 | [49] |
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), molded | 0.564 | 0.0818 | [50] |
Rubber, small strain | 0.01–0.1 | 0.00145–0.0145 | [12] |
Silicon, single crystal, different directions | 130–185 | 18.9–26.8 | [51] |
Silicon carbide (SiC) | 90–137 | 13.1–19.9 | [52] |
Single-walled carbon nanotube | 1000 | 140 | [53][54] |
Steel, A36 | 200 | 29 | [55] |
Stinging nettle fiber | 87 | 12.6 | [29] |
Titanium (22Ti) | 116 | 16.8 | [56][57][7][9][8][11][10] |
Titanium alloy , Grade 5
|
114 | 16.5 | [58] |
Tooth enamel, largely calcium phosphate | 83 | 12 | [59] |
Tungsten carbide (WC) | 600–686 | 87–99.5 | [60] |
Wood, American beech | 9.5–11.9 | 1.38–1.73 | [61] |
Wood, black cherry | 9–10.3 | 1.31–1.49 | [61] |
Wood, red maple | 9.6–11.3 | 1.39–1.64 | [61] |
Wrought iron | 193 | 28 | [62] |
Yttrium iron garnet (YIG), polycrystalline | 193 | 28 | [63] |
Yttrium iron garnet (YIG), single-crystal | 200 | 29 | [64] |
Zinc (30Zn) | 108 | 15.7 | [65] |
Zirconium (40Zr), commercial | 95 | 13.8 | [11] |
See also
- Bending stiffness
- Deflection
- Deformation
- Flexural modulus
- Impulse excitation technique
- List of materials properties
- Yield (engineering)
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Further reading
- The ASM Handbook (various volumes) contains Young's Modulus for various materials and information on calculations. Online version (subscription required)
External links
- Matweb: free database of engineering properties for over 175,000 materials
- Young's Modulus for groups of materials, and their cost
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