Tuesday, December 29, 2015

terminology - What is difference between homogeneous and isotropic material?


When do we say a material is isotropic? When properties such as density, Young's modulus etc. are same in all directions. If these properties are direction-dependent then we can say that the material is anisotropic.


Now, when do we say a material is homogeneous? If I have steel with BCC crystal structure, when do we say that this is homogeneous and non-homogeneous? Can someone give specific examples to explain - especially what a non-homogeneous material would be?





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