ME206

Material Science

Part I: Concepts you need to know (read the book and our PPT slides to get familiar with
them. NO NEED to turn in for this part)
- Point defects
- Impurities
- Vacancy
- Interstitial defect
- Substitutional defect
- Screw dislocation
- Burgers vector
- Edge dislocation
- Mixed dislocations
- Slip plane
- Slip
- Slip direction
- Grain
- Grain boundary
- Grain-size strengthening

Part II: This part contains your HW3 and you will need to turn in.

HW3
Due on next Wed. (9/18)
Prob.1:Impurities in Solids
Atomic radius, crystal structure, electronegativity, and the most common valence are given in the
following table for several elements; for those that are nonmetals, only atomic radii are indicated.
Element

Atomic Radius (nm)

Crystal Structure

Electronegativity

Valence

Ni

0.1246

FCC

1.8

+2

0.071

0.046

0.060

Ag

0.1445

FCC

1.4

+1

Al

0.1431

FCC

1.5

+3

Co

0.1253

HCP

1.7

+2

Cr

0.1249

BCC

1.6

+3

Fe

0.1241

BCC

1.7

+2

Pt

0.1387

FCC

1.5

+2

Which of these elements would you expect to form the following with nickel:
(a)A substitutional solid solution
(b)An interstitial solid solution

Prob.2:Calculate the composition, in weight percent, of an alloy that contains 105 kg of iron, 0.2 kg of
carbon, and 1.0 kg of chromium.

Prob.3.What is the composition, in atom percent, of an alloy that contains 33 g of copper and 47 g of
zinc?

Prob.4.ASTM grain size determination.

The following is a schematic micrograph that represents the microstructure of some hypothetical metal.
Determine the following:
(a) Mean intercept length
(b) ASTM grain size number, G

Prob. 5 Draw burgers circuits to Show burgers vector for each of the following dislocations: