In order readily to understand the two remarkable properties of malleability and ductility, which are now turned to such good account in almost every branch of the mechanical arts, it will be ...
Of interest here is the final degree to which the material changes shape. This is the “ductility” of the material. It is determined by the intersection of line number 4, having the same slope as the ...
The verb 'to yield' has two, seemingly contradictory, meanings. To yield under force is to submit to it, to surrender. To yield a profit has a different, more comfortable, connotation: to bear fruit, ...