Student Name ………………………… Student Number ………………… DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MECH 473 Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Materials 1 hour and 15 minutes Mid-term Test No.1 Monday June 5, 2006 (2) 1. Calculate the theoretical density of NaCl given that the atomic mass of Na is 22.99 g/mole and Cl is 35.45 g/mole and that the Na ion radius is 1.26 A and Cl ion radius is 1.81 A and Avogadro’s no. is 6.02x10exp(23) atoms/mol. ao 2rNa 1 2rCl 1 21.26 21.81 6.14 A o (4) 4 22.99 4 35.45 1.68 g/cm 3 mass 3 volume 6.14 10 8 6.02 10 23 2. How is the modulus of elasticity related to the melting point of a material? What is the long range attractive energy between the positive and negative charges of the atoms? What is the relationship between the coefficient of linear thermal expansion and the elastic modulus? What is the relationship between the coefficient of linear thermal expansion and the absolute melting temperature? State whether the interatomic binding energy of the four atomic bonding mechanisms is strong, medium or weak. The modulus of elasticity, E, is linearly related to the absolute melting point, Tm, of a material by E 100 kTm where is the atomic volume. (1/2) The long range attractive energy between the positive and negative charges of the atom is Coulombic. (1/2) There is an inverse relationship between the modulus of elasticity and the melting temperature with the coefficient of linear thermal expansion given by G Cv G 3E 100TM where is the density of the material, Cv is the volumetric specific heat and G is the Gruneisen’s constant. The larger E and Tm, the smaller is the linear thermal expansion. (1) Metal – medium (1/2) Ionic – strong (1/2) Covalent – strong (1/2) Van der Waals – weak (1/2) (3) 3. Sketch the following planes and directions within the hexagonal unit cells. a) 2110, b) 1121, c) 10 1 0, d) (1210), e) (0002), f) (01 1 1) Directions (5) Plane 4. What are the Miller indices of the four directions of a form <111> that lie in the (1 01) plane of a cubic cell? If each <111> on a {110} represents a slip system of a dislocation, how many slip systems will exist in a material having a BCC structure? Show if it is possible, or not, for two dislocations to interact to form one dislocation in order to work harden the material that has a BCC crystal structure? (3 marks – one for (1 01) plane and 2 for four directions) There are six {110} planes having four <111> directions giving 24 slip systems. (1 mark) A BCC material cannot work harden because the dislocations, which have <111>{110}, do not interact in an energetically favorable manner, e.g., 111 1 1 1 202 111 1 1 1 0 111 1 1 1 020 These interactions never produce a dislocation having <111>, which is the close-packed direction in BCC materials. (2 marks) (1) 5. As a rule of thumb, at what temperature range should a material be used in order to neglect a) creep effects and b) general environmental effects on its mechanical properties. For creep effects only, the temperature should be less than T/Tm = 0.4 to 0.5 For general environmental effects (fatigue, creep, corrosion, etc), the temperature should be less than T/Tm = 0.3 (1) 6. What would happen to the thermal conductivity of a material if the mean free path of the electron inside the material should increase? What effect does solute atoms have in materials on the thermal conductivity? The thermal conductivity would increase if the electron’s mean free path should increase. Solute atoms (and defects) scatter electrons, which reduces their mean free path and thus the thermal conductivity of the material. (2) 7. In metals, heat is conducted by electrons. What conducts heat in the other types of materials such as ceramics, semiconductors, glasses and polymers? What is an approximate difference in heat conduction between the metals and the other materials and state why is there this difference? Phonons conduct heat in these materials, which is about 2 orders of magnitude slower than in the metals because the elastic wave speed (~10exp(3) m/s) of the phonon is less than the electron velocity in metals (~10exp(5) m/s). (2) 8. What is the failure mechanism(s) for a) metals, b) ceramics and glasses and c) polymers (2 possible). a) metals – dislocations (1/2) b) ceramics and glasses – cracks (1/2) c) polymers – cracks (hard polymers) and glide of polymer chains (soft polymers) (1) (6) 9. List five (5) mechanisms that we can use to strengthen or increase the hardness of a material and give a brief description of each. Indicate two mechanisms that are also effective in reducing high-temperature creep. 1) Strain hardening occurs by cold working a material to introduce dislocations, which act as barrier to the movement of other dislocations. (1) 2) Solid solution hardening, which involves adding solutes, alloying addition or foreign atoms to the material, which block the movement of dislocations, increase its strength and its resistance to high temperature creep. (1.5) 3) Secondary phases involves adding an alloying addition to induce multiple phases such as the alpha and beta phases in brass, which block the movement of dislocations at their phase boundaries increasing the materials strength. (1) 4) Dispersion hardening (aging) involves the formation of precipitates within a grain, block the movement of dislocations, increase its strength and its resistance to high temperature creep. (1.5) 5) Grain refinement involves reducing the size of the grains by rapidly cooling the material from a high temperature or by recrystallization during annealing after cold work. The grain boundaries block the movement of dislocations, which increases its strength but not the material resistance against high temperature creep. (1) (2) 10. A ceramic matrix composite contains internal flaws as large as 0.001 cm in length. The plain strain fracture toughness of the composite is 45 MPa sqrt(m) and the tensile strength is 550 MPa. Will the flaw cause the composite to fail before the tensile strength is reached? Assume f = 1. Since the crack is internal, 2a = 0.001 cm = 0.00001 m. Therefore a = 0.000005 m. K Ic f a or K Ic / f a MPa m /(1) .005 m) 11,354 MPa The applied stress required for the crack to cause failure is much larger than the tensile strength of 550 MPa. Failure of the ceramic should be expected due to the massive overload and not because of the presence of the flaws. (2) 11. For a material component that is exposed to cyclical stress, if the nominal stress is equal to the ultimate stress, how soon will the component fail? At a nominal stress is below the yield point and above the endurance limit, will the component fail? In ironbased materials, what is the design parameter used by engineers below which a nominal stress will not fatigue the material component. In FCC materials such as Al, Cu, and Ni how many cycles are often used to specify the design limit for the fatigue strength. The component will fail after the first half cycle. Yes, the component will eventually fail although it may be after a large number of cycles. The fatigue limit or the endurance limit. 107 cycles (2) 12. Bonus – What are four material phenomena that plasma crystals grown in space can be useful to study? Plasma crystals give insight in physical phenomena, which is otherwise unobservable on earth, such as (five given) • Study the transition between solid – liquid – gas – plasma states of matter. • Study the formation of defects • Study the phase separation (different crystal structures formed by small and large atoms) • Study the convection of fluids at interfaces • Study the flow of heat through a crystal via phonons (lattice vibrations)