Young's modulus

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Young's modulus is the slope of the linear part of the stress–strain curve for a material under tension or compression.

Young's modulus (or Young modulus) is a mechanical property of

modulus of elasticity for tension or axial compression. Young's modulus is defined as the ratio of the stress (force per unit area) applied to the object and the resulting axial strain (displacement or deformation) in the linear elastic
region of the material.

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

gigapascals
(GPa).

Examples:

  • Rubber
    (increasing pressure: length increases quickly, meaning low )
  • Aluminium (increasing pressure: length increases slowly, meaning high )

Linear elasticity

A solid material undergoes

elastic deformation
when a small load is applied to it in compression or extension. Elastic deformation is reversible, meaning that the material returns to its original shape after the load is removed.

At near-zero stress and strain, the stress–strain curve is

linear, and the relationship between stress and strain is described by Hooke's law that states stress is proportional to strain. The coefficient of proportionality is Young's modulus. The higher the modulus, the more stress is needed to create the same amount of strain; an idealized rigid body
would have an infinite Young's modulus. Conversely, a very soft material (such as a fluid) would deform without force, and would have zero Young's modulus.

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-beam
    has 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

statically determinate beam
when a load is applied at a point in between the beam's supports.

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.

soils are non-linear. However, this is not an absolute classification: if very small stresses or strains are applied to a non-linear material, the response will be linear, but if very high stress or strain is applied to a linear material, the linear theory will not be enough. For example, as the linear theory implies reversibility
, it would be absurd to use the linear theory to describe the failure of a steel bridge under a high load; although steel is a linear material for most applications, it is not in such a case of catastrophic failure.

In

tensile tests
conducted on a sample of the material.

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

carbon fiber has a much higher Young's modulus (is much stiffer) when force is loaded parallel to the fibers (along the grain). Other such materials include wood and reinforced concrete
. Engineers can use this directional phenomenon to their advantage in creating structures.

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

tensile stress
, , by the
engineering extensional strain
, , in the elastic (initial, linear) portion of the physical stress–strain curve:

where

  • 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

elastic potential energy
stored in a linear elastic material is given by the integral of the Hooke's law:

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

Influences of selected glass component additions on Young's modulus of a specific base glass

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.

Approximate Young's modulus for various materials
Material Young's modulus (GPa) Megapound per square inch (
psi)[5]
Ref.
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]

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Conversion formulae
Homogeneous isotropic linear elastic materials have their elastic properties uniquely determined by any two moduli among these; thus, given any two, any other of the elastic moduli can be calculated according to these formulas, provided both for 3D materials (first part of the table) and for 2D materials (second part).
3D formulae Notes

There are two valid solutions.
The plus sign leads to .

The minus sign leads to .

Cannot be used when
2D formulae Notes
Cannot be used when