PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
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Melting of Noncrystalline Materials<br />
•In noncrystalline materials (glasses), a gradual<br />
transition from solid to liquid states occurs<br />
•The solid material gradually softens as temperature<br />
increases, finally becoming liquid at the melting point<br />
•During softening, the material has a consistency of<br />
increasing plasticity (increasingly like a fluid) as it<br />
gets closer to the melting point<br />
©2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. M. P. Groover, “Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing 2/e”