Talk:Characterization (materials science)

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Could this topic be expanded to science & engineering in general? I'm lightly editing Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment#Goals_and_methods and hit upon that word as an important one that could be easily misunderstood, but there's no good article to link to.

Sorry all I can do is ask. Thanks in advance, --Geekdiva (talk) 22:11, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, I added a quote at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/characterize#Verb to demonstrate its use in a scientific context:

2. To determine the characteristics of.  [quotations ▲]

1998, Brian Voigt, “Glossary of Coastal Terminology”, in Department of Ecology Publication No. 98-105[1]:

This glossary includes terminology used in coastal science, engineering, geology, management, nearshore oceanography and the technologies that characterize, measure, describe or quantify the physical properties, processes and changes of the coastal zone.

But that's as far as I got. Thanks, --Geekdiva (talk) 22:52, 17 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be correct to arrange this paragraph such as:

• Mechanical testing including tensile, compressive, torsional, creep, fatigue, toughness and hardness testing (see also Impulse excitation technique and ultrasound techniques)
• Thermal testing including DTA, TGA, DETA
• Magnetoelectric testing including magnetometry, electro-transport

I guess my proposition needs to be more developed but I haven't the knowledge--82.216.26.247 (talk) 16:44, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]