Material properties:
* Sensory properties are those that produce material to our senses: color, odor, etc..
* Optical properties are those that present a material when light shines on. Are classified as opaque materials (do not let light pass through and not see through them), transparent (letting light and looks through them) and translucent (let in light but you can not see through of them).
* Thermal properties, describing the behavior of a material to heat. Are classified as conductive materials (let pass the heat energy, eg metal) and insulating materials (not allowed to pass the heat energy, eg glass fiber).
* Magnetic properties: taking into account their behavior in an external magnetic field can be classified into: diamagnetic materials (opposed to the magnetic field inside the magnetic field is weaker. Paramagnetic materials (magnetic field opposed to the interior. And ferro magnetic material (inside the magnetic field is higher abroad.
* Chemical properties: it limits the life of the material that undergoes processes: oxidation (when the material is combined with oxygen) or corrosion (when the oxidation of a material is produced in a moist environment.
* Mechanical properties, describing their behavior to external forces:
Elasticity: The ability to recover its shape.
Plasticity: ability to retain its new shape.
Ductility: the ability to stretch into threads.
Malleability: the ability to spread in sheets without breaking.
Hardness: opposition by scratches.
Fragility: in opposite to resilience.
Toughness: Resistance to breakage when subjected to efforts.
Fatigue: deformation when subjected to varying loads.
Machinability: easy to cut left.
Sharply, increasing the hardness.
Castability ability of a cast to fill a mold.
Resilience: opposing resistance to impact.

Efforts:
* Drive: the force tends to lengthen an object.
* Compression: the force tends to shorten the object.
* Flexion force is parallel to the surface tends to deform the object.
* Torque: the force tends to twist the object.
* Cutting: the force is parallel to the surface to be broken.
* Buckling: Similar to compression but occurs in subjects in low section and great length.

Tries:
* Test drive: is slowly stretching a specimen length and cross section, the material to be analyzed until it breaks.
* Fatigue Test: consists of rapidly rotating cylinder of material to be analyzed while being deformed.
* Hardness Test: consists of exerting force with a diamond on the part to analyze and view the measurements of the trace.
* Charpy impact test: is to determine the energy required to break a specimen of material to be analyzed by an impact. It uses a pendulum.