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Week 5: Plastic Properties of Materia ls

~ Questions to be completed outside workshop and submitted for assessment

1. Strongly work hardening materials are often preferred for energy absorbing applications
than those which do not work harden greatly. One test of the ability to absorb energy is to
bend a flat bar of the material and observe the shape it takes.on. A strongly work
hardening material will form a U shape, whereas a weakly work hardening material will
form a V shape. Explain why this is so with the aid of diagrams. _

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3. An alloy was examined undw..the microscope, and the following image produced .

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b) the yield strength if the intrinsic strength of the alloy is 40MPa and the Hall-Petch slope
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4. * Three alloys were found to have the Hall-Petch parameters shown in the following
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Which alloy has the highest yield strength for a grain size of 20 microns?

Which alloy will benefit the most from grain refinement? Explain your answer.

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6. Why are covalently and ionically bonded materials usually brittle?

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8. A cylindrical rod of copper originally 16.0 mm id diameter is to be cold worked by

drawing; the circular cross section will be maintained during deformation. A cold-worked
yield strength in excess of 250 MPa and a ductility of at least 12%EL are desired.
Furthermore, the final diameter must be 11 .3 mm. Using the graphs below, explain how
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9. Identify the region on the following chart where you would expect to form substitutional
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(a) Explain how it is possible to engineer the yield strength of a single class of metal alloys
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(b) Explain why the density of a single class of ~etal alloys does not vary greatly.

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