Elasticity

Which is more elastic - Steel or Rubber?

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bhargavmech

  • Jul 29th, 2009
 

Elasticity is the capability of an object to return to its former shape once a load inducing strain is removed. If you were to drop a steel ball on a very hard surface, it would probably bounce higher than than rubber. If you drop it on a softer surface, because it would deform less, then the surface it is to bounce off will be the one deforming, so the bounce would be a function of the elasticity of the floor, not of the ball.

A strand of silk is indeed stronger than a steel wire of the same diameter. The reason is that metal uses metallic bounds which is not as strong as the covalent bounds in a macro-molecule like the ones in silk. This also explains why Kevlar, carbon fiber, and carbon nanotubes are also stronger than steel.

Youngs Modulus of steel is more than youngs modulus of rubber

RASHMI RANJAN DAS

  • May 6th, 2012
 

It is the property of material in which metal gains it initial position after removal of force.

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Manpreet Singh

  • May 10th, 2012
 

steel is more elastic because young Modulus of elasticity of steel is more than that of rubber.

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radhe shyam singh

  • Jun 21st, 2012
 

Elasticity is the property of material which regain its original shape and size when remove the force on the material.

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Kalpesh

  • Sep 19th, 2012
 

Rubber was more Elastic Than Steel

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Mallayya S M

  • Oct 12th, 2012
 

Elasticity is defined as any of object regain its original shape and size. example - when we draw the rubber from fixed point with certain distance and release it , it will regain its original shape and size.

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LDK

  • Oct 29th, 2012
 

Steel have a more elasticity then any other material

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Pankaj

  • Oct 31st, 2012
 

Elasticity is the property by virtue of which body regain its original shape and size after removal of external force.

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