List of materials properties

A material's property is an intensive, often quantitative, property of some material. Quantitative properties may be used as a metric by which the benefits of one material versus another can be assessed, thereby aiding in materials selection.

A property may be a constant or may be a function of one or more independent variables, such as temperature. Materials properties often vary to some degree according to the direction in the material in which they are measured, a condition referred to as anisotropy. Materials properties that relate to different physical phenomena often behave linearly (or approximately so) in a given operating range. Modeling them as linear can significantly simplify the differential constitutive equations that the property describes.

Some materials properties are used in relevant equations to predict the attributes of a system a priori. For example, if a material of a known specific heat gains or loses a known amount of heat, the temperature change of that material can be determined. Materials properties are most reliably measured by standardized test methods. Many such methods have been documented by their respective user communities and published through ASTM International.

Acoustical properties

Atomic properties

Chemical properties

Main article: Chemical property

Electrical properties

Environmental properties

Magnetic properties

Manufacturing properties

Mechanical properties

Optical properties

Radiological properties

Thermal properties

See also

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