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Interpretation:
The strengths of aluminum, steel and titanium should be compared and it should be predicted if the aluminum would be a good choice for a particular design that needed high strength.
Concept introduction:
The strength of any material is the measure of its resistance towards any deformity. In simple words, strength is the ability of any material through which it absorbs the load or pressure without breaking.
It simply means that, lower the strength, easier will be the breaking tendency of material and harder the strength harder will be the material.
Strength is measured as specific strength which is the ratio of materials strength to the density of the material.
In some comparative cases of strength, the tensile strength for any material can be higher than the other but for design or product formation, the specific strength is taken into consideration for which the tensile strength is divided by density of the material.
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