Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Bombay

Problem Set 2
To be A empted on the 18th August 2023 (Friday)

1. For a brass alloy, the following engineering stresses produce the corresponding
plas c engineering strains, prior to necking:

Calculate the toughness of the material for a true strain of 0.6. Calculate the energy
needed to pull a sample of 100 mm3 to this strain. Another sample of volume
1000mm3 is deformed to this strain.

2. For a tensile test, it can be demonstrated that necking begins when

dσ/dε = σ

Determine the value of true strain at the onset of necking

3. A large tower is to be supported by a series of steel wires; it is es mated that the
load on each wire will be 13,300 N. Determine the minimum required wire diameter,
assuming a factor of safety of 2 and a yield strength of 860 MPa for the steel.
4. (a) A 10-mm-diameter Brinell hardness indenter produced an indenta on 2.50 mm
in diameter in a steel alloy when a load of 1000 kg was used. Compute the HB of this
material.
(b) What will be the diameter of an indenta on to yield a hardness of 300 HB when a
500-kg load is used?
(c) For the same material and the same load (assuming HB = HV), calculate the size
of the indenta on using the Vickers indentor

5. A cylindrical specimen of a brass alloy having a length of 100 mm must elongate only
5 mm when a tensile load of 100,000 N is applied. Under these circumstances what
must be the radius of the specimen? Yield strength of Brass is 250 MPa, Youngs
Modulus is 94 GPa and the Ul mate Tensile Strength of 450 MPa.
 a. Assuming that the material just yields at this point, determine the radius of
the specimen
b. Assuming the material reaches the UTS at this load, what should be the
radius of the specimen?
c. Assuming that the material work hardens as σ= Kεn, and with n = 0.45,
calculate the value of strength coefficient K. Use the result in problem 2.
6. A cylindrical specimen of brass alloy is stressed in compression. If its original and
final diameters are 30.00 and 30.06 mm, respec vely, and its final length is 105.20
mm, compute its original length if the deforma on is totally elas c. The elas c
modulus is 97 GPa
7. (a) Why does a cylindrical sample undergo “barrelling” during plas c deforma on
under compression?
(b) The stress calculated based on the load and instantaneous diameter of a
cylindrical sample of ini al height ho and diameter do may be related to the
instantaneous diameter and height of the sample by the equa on σ=
Y*(1+1/3*μ*d/h), where Y corresponds to the flow stress without fric on (Y = Kεn),
and
ε = ln(h/ho).
Wri ng d and h in terms of true strain ε develop an expression to calculate the
energy needed per unit volume of the material un l the height of the sample is half
of its ini al height. Calculate the magnitude of this energy using the values of n and K
from problem 5, assuming the coefficient of fric on to be 0.1. Neglect barrelling.
8. For thin-walled cylindrical tubes that are internally pressurized, the circumferen al
stress is a func on of the pressure difference across the wall (Δp ), cylinder radius (r),
and tube thickness (t) as

σ= Δpr/4t
Compute the circumferen al stress to which the walls of this pressurized cylinder are
exposed if the pressure difference across the wall is 0.66 MPa, tube radius is 125mm.
The room-temperature yield strength of Ni is 100 MPa and, furthermore, diminishes
about 5 MPa for every deg C rise in temperature. Would you expect the wall
thickness computed to be suitable for this Ni cylinder at 350 deg C? Why or why not?
Compute the minimum thickness that could be used without any deforma on of the
tube walls.