DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

MEng 143 – Material Science and Engineering for Mechanical Engineering

Laboratory Report No.
Second Semester, A.Y. 2020 - 2021

Name: Jeremy B. Dadula Course & Year: BSME III

Laboratory Exercise No. 1:

Tensile Test

Introduction

Tensile test is one of the most fundamental and common types of mechanical testing.

This applies tensile force to a material and measures tensile strength, yield strength, Poisson’s

ratio, and strain-hardening characteristics. SolidWorks application are being used for this

laboratory exercise. SolidWorks is the most widely used 3D CAD package in education and

industry today. It is a solid modeling computer-aided design and computer-aided engineering

program used for planning, visual ideation, modeling, feasibility assessment, prototyping, and

project management.

In this activity, we will have a picture in mind of how the material behaves on the tensile

test using the simulation feature of the SolidWorks in stress analysis of the materials. Also,

Interpret the stress-strain relationship for tensile test. Moreover, we will have a picture of how

the tensile test will be performed.

Experimental Procedure

In this activity SolidWorks application is being used, so installing it to the computer is

the primary task to be done. To know how the program works, watching the tutorial that the

instructor provided and exploring it is a great help. In order for it to be done is to follow the

step by step procedure from the video provided by the instructor. The provided data for the

material in the video does not work and the result will be an error. So, the material that I am

going to use is the available material in my SolidWorks software which is the alloy steel.

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Figure 1: Material Properties

Laws and Theories

Hooke’s Law

This principle of physics talks about elasticity and how the force required to extend or

compress an elastic object by a certain distance is proportional to that distance. More force

produces more distance. In simple words, if the tensile/compressive load is doubled, the

increase/decrease in length will also double as long as the metal is within the proportional limit.

Results and Discussion

When all the required values are done, We are going to run the study of material that

I am using. On the left side of the screen, the result of the simulation will be available.

In the test, because a force is applied, the behavior of the material when subjected to

tensile test is the material undergo deformation. The material elongates and its diameter

reduces.

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Figure 2: Result (stress)

Figure 3: Result Displacement

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Figure 4: Result (Strain)

Conclusions

Based on all observations and data measurements obtained in this study, it can be

concluded that we are able to Examine the behavior of the material when subjected to tensile

stress, Also, Interpret the stress-strain relationship for tensile test.

References
(What to input)
Reports require references to the work of others. References should be cited when a work
was used in writing the report. Example,

1. Cheesewright, R.: Turbulent Natural Convection from a Vertical Plane Surface, J.

Heat Trans., vol. 90, p. 1, 1968.
2. Kwon, O. K., and Pletcher, R. H., 1981, “Prediction of the Incompressible Flow
Over a Rearward-Facing Step,” Technical Report HTL-26, CFD-7, Iowa State
Univ., Ames, Iowa.

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