The potatoes finished, the dogs were put back in their cages for another twenty-four hours of close confinement. View in context The potatoes followed, crisp and dry and delicious--and Mirabel became more popular than ever.
This tensile test of a nodular cast iron demonstrates low ductility. In materials science, ductility is a solid material's ability to deform under tensile stress; this is often characterized by the material's ability to be stretched into a wire.uctility can be quantified by the fracture strain, which is the engineering strain at which a test specimen fractures during a uniaxial tensile test. Another commonly used measure is the reduction of area at fracture.
Metals are a common type of ductile material. Copper, aluminum, and steel are examples of ductile metals. The opposite of ductility is brittleness, where a material breaks when tensile stress is applied to lengthen it. Examples of brittle materials include cast iron, concrete, and some glass products. Bridges made with ductile metals, metalsmithing, and jewelry making are real-life applications involving the use of ductility.