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toughness

ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing
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toughness

Summary

toughness ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (471 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • toughness is a type of physical quantity[2].
  • toughness is a type of material property[3].
  • toughness's Commons category is recorded as Toughness[4].
  • toughness is the opposite of brittleness[5].
  • toughness's main Wikidata property is recorded as P5520[6].
  • toughness's different from is recorded as fracture toughness[7].
  • toughness's test method is recorded as charpy impact test[8].
  • toughness's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include physical quantity[2] and material property[3]. toughness is the opposite of brittleness[5].

Why It Matters

toughness ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (471 views/month).[1] toughness has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] toughness is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Opposite of → brittleness
    Different from → fracture toughness
    Subclass of → —
    Main wikidata property → P5520
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 16735, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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