4B2 TEST 1

Please answer these 10 questions by typing directly on to this document. Then

upload the document to Blackboard. You have 30mins in total. You may
consult your notes and other sources but you may not communicate with
anyone else.

In some of the multiple choice questions there is more than one correct
answer, so you should mark all the answers you think are correct.

Q1. Ductile failure can happen if the material has:

a) Low Young’s modulus

b) Low yield strength
c) Low toughness
d) Low ductility

Q2. Quenching steel from 1000oC gives:

a) High yield strength
b) Lower yield strength
c) High hardness
d) Low hardness

Q3. After quenching an Al/Zn alloy from its solution treatment temperature, it was
annealed. The annealing will cause:
a) An increase in yield strength followed by a decrease in yield strength
b) A decrease in yield strength followed by an increase in yield strength
c) A continuous decrease in yield strength
d) No change in yield strength

Q4. Annealing is also called:

a) Tempering
b) Quenching
c) Aging
d) Cold working

Q5. For steel, which of the following temperatures could be used for tempering:
a) Room temperature
b) 300oC
c) 500oC
d) 800oC
Q6. Suppose I take a metal coat-hanger and pull the hooked part until it I completely
straight. I don’t break the metal. Has the coat-hanger failed?

a) Yes
b) No

Q7. Explain your answer to Q6

If the hook is straight then the coat-hanger won’t function any more, so it’s failed.

Q8. There are several manufacturing operations which cause cold working. Name one of
them.

Extrusion (others are rolling, forging, etc)

Q9. For the cold-working operation you named in Q8, describe how the shapes of the grains
change as a result of the cold-working operation.

Extrusion turns the grains into sausage-shapes, so they will be longer in one direction and
shorter in all others.

Q10. If this cold-worked material is annealed, the grain size will:

a) First decrease and then increase
b) Continuously decrease
c) Continuously increase
d) Stay the same

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