Energy terms
1. Resilience
• Resilience is the resistance of a material to permanent deformation.
• It indicates the amount of energy necessary to deform the material to the proportional limit.
• Resilience is therefore measured by the area under the elastic portion of the stress strain curve.
Significance
• Resilience has particular importance in the evaluation of resilient-denture lining materials, tissue conditioners and maxillofacial materials.
