The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Ductility

Engineering

The amount that a bar of metal one inch in area of cross section will have stretched at the breaking point while being pulled apart in a testing machine. When a bar eight inches long stretches to ten inches in length it has a ductility of 25 per cent.

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