Fundamental Properties of Materials

Fundamental Properties of Materials

Learning Outcome

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: One. Understand the different fundamental properties of materials and how materials react when used in the construction. Two. Identify standard tests on how to determine these properties.

A building material's property is an intensive, often quantitative, property of the material.

Quantitative properties may be used as a metric by which the benefits of one material versus another can be assessed, thereby helping in materials selection.

The fundamental properties of building materials include:

I. Parameters of state / structural characteristics

II. Physical (non-mechanical) properties III. Mechanical properties