Mechanical Metallurgy: Laboratory guide

Experiment 2: Charpy Impact test

Objective:
The objective of impact test is to determine or measure the amount of energy absorbed by
specimen at room temperature during fracture. This absorbed energy is a measure of a given
material's toughness.
Experimental procedure:
Materials and equipment used for:
 Charpy Notch Broach
 V-notched specimens
 Centering tongs
 Charpy impact testing machine (358 Joules capacity)
Methodology Charpy:
 Use a Charpy notch broach, to create a 2mm deep V-notch (at 45°) with a tip radius of
0.25 mm on one of the faces (across the length) of Charpy specimen.
 Perform a zero-error test. This is done to ensure that your machine is well calibrated.
 Use centering tongs to transfer specimen to the Charpy impact testing machine, make
sure the specimen is in position and that the notch is faced away from the striker of the
pendulum.
 Record the energy absorbed.
Literature review
 Give a full discussion of your material (the material you were given) include chemical
composition, mechanical properties and where the material is used (application).
 Define Charpy impact test and mechanism of the test.
 Applications of Charpy impact

Results and Discussion of results

Record the energy absorbed.
Discuss the energy absorbed value (measured in our laboratory) against the theoretical energy
absorbed and use literature to support your discussion.