materialbedingte

Materialbedingte is a German attributive adjective meaning caused by or related to the material. It is formed from the noun Material and the participle bedingt (conditioned, caused) and is used to attribute a feature, effect, or condition to material factors rather than to design, process, or human influence. The term covers phenomena that originate in the material itself, such as its composition, microstructure, impurities, hardness, wear resistance, or thermal properties.

In usage, materialbedingte is common in engineering, materials science, quality management and construction. Typical collocations include materialbedingte Unterschiede (material-related differences), materialbedingte Abweichungen (material-related deviations), materialbedingte Eigenschaften (material-related properties), and materialbedingte Schäden (material-related damages). It can also describe defects or performance limits that stem from the chosen material rather than from processing.

Grammatically, materialbedingte is an adjective and agrees with the noun it modifies (materialbedingte Unterschiede, materialbedingte Eigenschaft, materialbedingte Merkmale; singular: eine materialbedingte Abweichung). In some contexts it overlaps with but is not fully interchangeable with werkstoffbedingt, which is often used in technical German to denote material-based causes, and with materialabhängig, which emphasizes dependence on material rather than the material’s intrinsic properties.

See also: Werkstoff, Material, Werkstoffkunde.