List of materials properties From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Material constant) Jump to navigation Jump to search A material's property (or material property ) is an intensive property of some material, i.e. a physical property that does not depend on the amount of the material. These quantitative properties may be used as a metric by which the benefits of one material versus another can be compared, 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 [ further explanation needed ] . Modeling them as linear can significantly...