MSE 230

HW4 (due 02/4, 02/5)

Spring 2010

1. A cylindrical tensile test specimen is cut from a magnesium crystal such that the specimen axis, slip plane normal, and slip direction are coplanar ( + = 90) and = = 45. (a) If the critical resolved shear stress for slip on this slip system is 0.78 MPa, calculate the axial tensile (normal) stress at which slip would begin. (b) Make a sketch analogous to Fig. 7.7 (bottom half) showing the arrangement of atoms on the slip plane and in the slip direction. Draw the other two possible slip directions in the slip plane and explain briefly why they would not be preferred. 2. Tensile stress is applied along [001] in an aluminum alloy single crystal. If slip on (111)[011] initiates at [001] = 6.8 MPa, calculate the critical resolved shear stress for this slip system. 3. A certain specification requires a metal alloy to have a yield strength of at least 310 MPa and ductility of at least 25% elongation. If cold-working is allowed, which of the three alloys for which data is given in Fig. 7.19 of Callister are candidates. Justify your answers. 4. An annealed 1040 steel bar 1.00 cm in diameter x 50.0 cm long is cold-worked by drawing through a die that reduces the diameter to 0.75 cm. (a) Using Fig. 7.19 in Callister, determine the yield strength, tensile strength, and ductility of the drawn bar. The drawn bar is then annealed and drawn again through a smaller diameter die. (b) What diameter die would be necessary to achieve a yield strength of 700 MPa and what would be corresponding ductility. 5. (a) Replot the yield strength versus grain size data for the annealed brass given in the plot in Fig. 7.15 using a linear scale from 1 m to 100 m for the grain size. Use the d-1/2 scale for the conversion and extrapolate the data (line) to d = 1 m. On your converted plot, indicate the portion of the curve resulting from the extrapolated data by a dotted curve. (b) How much strengthening (% increase) is possible in this brass by decreasing the grain size from 50 m to 5 m. (c) Using Fig. 7.15 or your plot (a), estimate the grain size of the annealed brass in Fig. 7.19. (d) Using Fig. 7.19, compare the strengthening of pure copper due to: (1) alloying the annealed copper with zinc to produce the brass, (2) 20% cold-working of the annealed copper, and (3) a combination of the alloying and cold-work in (1) and (2). Express the strengthening as the % increase in yield strength from that of the annealed copper.