1.

The following data were collected from a test specimen of cold-rolled and
annealed brass. The specimen had an initial gage length l0 of 35 mm and an
initial cross-sectional area A0 of 10.5 mm2.

(a) Plot the engineering stress–strain curve and the true stress–strain curve. Since the
instantaneous cross-sectional area of the specimen is unknown past the point of
necking, truncate the true stress–true strain data at the point that corresponds to the
ultimate tensile strength. Use of a software graphing package is recommended.

(b) Comment on the relative values of true stress–strain and engineering stress–strain
during the elastic loading and prior to necking.

(c) If the true stress–strain data were known past the point of necking, what might
the curve look like?

(d) Calculate the 0.2% offset yield strength.

(e) Calculate the tensile strength.

(f) Calculate the elastic modulus using a linear fit to the appropriate data.

Δ Load (N)
displacement
(mm)
0 0
0.0002 0.000114
0.004 0.002272
0.0068 0.003862
0.009 0.005112
0.0099 0.005623
0.0112 0.006362
0.0157 177
0.0199 327
0.024 462
1.72 797
5.55 1350
8.15 1720
13.07 2220
19.25 2589
22.77 2690
25.25 2410
a) Plot

Engineering stress–strain and the true stress–strain

450
400
350
300
Stress (MPa)

250
200 Engineering stress
150 True stress
100
50
0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8
Strain

b) At the beginning we can see that the response of the engineering stress and true stress
are almost the same because they are in the elastic region, however when the material
is in plastic region the response starts to be pretty different due to change area. For
the compute of Engineering stress, the area doesn’t change, nevertheless in the true
stress it is modified when we start to have necking, for that reason in true stress the
response is higher and higher.
c) The graph will continue increasing.
d) 60 MPa
e) 252 MPa
0.00032
f) △ 𝑆 = 0.000605905 = 0.5281

Linear part
0.00035
0.0003
0.00025
0.0002
0.00015
0.0001
0.00005
0
0 0.0001 0.0002 0.0003 0.0004 0.0005 0.0006 0.0007