MPA calculation VS MPA listed on materials

[Ed Kelly]

Hi,

I am not a mathematician or scientist or student. In advance I ask that you please excuse my ignorance. I calculated that at tensile strength of .51 equals an MPA of .0035163. Thank god for internet calculators. I do not know what MPA means, but materials are listed this way. So if I want to choose a material with an MPA of greater than .0035163 and I look at the MPA of materials, the MPA listed seems mammoth in comparison and defies logic. For example, glass is listed as having an MPA of 60. So what am I missing?

 

[DEvens]

Hi Ed Kelly. Welcome to the forum.

Units might be nice. A tensile strength of 0.51 what? The MPA probably refers to Mega Pascal.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(unit)
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensile_strength

So 0.51 what?

 

[Ed Kelly]

Sorry - .51 PSI

 

[ZapperZ]

Sorry - .51 PSI

Yeah, but did you get DEvans answer of what MPA means (to be accurate, it should be written as MPa)? You never indicated if by that information, you realize that this is a psi to MPa unit conversion.

Zz.

 

[DEvens]

Oh. For 0.51 PSI you don't need much of a container. You could probably get that much pressure from a party balloon.