MATERIALS ENGINEERING ME 311 (18140)

Homework Assignment #6
EACH PROBLEM IS WORTH 10 POINTS
Due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, November 18, 2014
1. A brass alloy is known to have a yield strength of 275 MPa (40,000 psi), a tensile strength of 380 MPa
(55,000 psi), and an elastic modulus of 103 GPa (15.0 106 psi). A cylindrical specimen of this alloy 12.7
mm (0.50 in.) in diameter and 250 mm (10.0 in.) long is stressed in tension and found to elongate 7.6 mm
(0.30 in.). On the basis of the information given, is it possible to compute the magnitude of the load that is
necessary to produce this change in length? If so, calculate the load. If not, explain why.
2. A cylindrical metal specimen 12.7 mm (0.5 in.) in diameter and 250 mm (10 in.) long is to be subjected
to a tensile stress of 28 MPa (4000 psi); at this stress level the resulting deformation will be totally elastic.
(a) If the elongation must be less than 0.080 mm (3.2 10-3 in.), which of the metals in Table 6.1
of Callister (8th edition) are suitable candidates? Why?
(b) If, in addition, the maximum permissible diameter decrease is 1.2 10-3 mm (4.7 10-5 in.)
when the tensile stress of 28 MPa is applied, which of the metals that satisfy the criterion in part (a) are
suitable candidates? Why?
3. A cylindrical metal specimen having an original diameter of 12.8 mm (0.505 in.) and gauge length of
50.80 mm (2.000 in.) is pulled in tension until fracture occurs. The diameter at the point of fracture is 6.60
mm (0.260 in.), and the fractured gauge length is 72.14 mm (2.840 in.). Calculate the ductility in terms of
percent reduction in area
4. (a) Define a slip system.
(b) Do all metals have the same slip system? Why or why not?
5. A single crystal of aluminum is oriented for a tensile test such that its slip plane normal makes an angle
of 28.1 with the tensile axis. Three possible slip directions make angles of 62.4, 72.0, and 81.1 with the
same tensile axis.
(a) Which of these three slip directions is most favored?
(b) If plastic deformation begins at a tensile stress of 1.95 MPa (280 psi), determine the critical
resolved shear stress for aluminum.
6. Two previously undeformed cylindrical specimens of an alloy are to be strain hardened by reducing their
cross-sectional areas (while maintaining their circular cross sections). For one specimen, the initial and
deformed radii are 16 mm and 11 mm, respectively. The second specimen, with an initial radius of 12 mm,
must have the same deformed hardness as the first specimen; compute the second specimen's radius after
deformation.
7. (a) Rewrite the expression for the total free energy change for nucleation for the case of a cubic nucleus
of edge length a (instead of a sphere of radius r). Now differentiate this expression with respect to a and
solve for both the critical cube edge length, a*, and also G*.
(b) Is G* greater for a cube or a sphere? Why?
8. (a) Briefly describe the phenomena of superheating and supercooling.
(b) Why do these phenomena occur?