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What must be considered when selecting materials for design?

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-Mechanical properties
-Raw material cost
-Transportation costs
-Maintenance costs
Aesthetic factors

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What mechanical properties must be considered when selecting materials for design?

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-Material stiffness (Young’s modulus)
-Resistance to plastic deformation (yield strength)
-Ductility

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Name some physical properties of materials.

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-Density
-Mass
-Melting and boiling points
-Electrical and thermal conductivity

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Name two examples of mechanical property.

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Elastic response (stiffness) and plastic flow (yield stress)

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What determines the ability for a material to resist deformation?

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Internal structure

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For metals and alloys, describe the constitutive relation.

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Stress will be a function of strain and material microstructure

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What experimental methods can be used to determine microstructure characterisation?

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-Optical microscopy
-Scanning electron microscopy
-Transmission electron microscopy

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What experimental methods can be used to determine mechanical characterisation?

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-Tensile/compressive test (Uniaxial loading)
-Fatigue test (Cyclic loading)
Creep test (time dependent behaviour)

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What computational material modelling methods can be used to derive structure-property relations?

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-Physics-bases, phenomenological or empirical methods
-Simulate process induced microstructures
-Simulate mechanical properties

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What does a tensile test provide?

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An experiment approach to studying basic material behaviour

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What assumptions are made during a tensile test?

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Loading is pure axial and the deformation takes place uniformly, both along the length and cross section of the specimen

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How is a tensile test carried out?

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By moving one end of the specimen at constant speed, while holding the other end fixed

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What are the primary variables recorded during a tensile test?

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Load (F) and extension (L)

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What is required to determine true stress?

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Knowledge of the instantaneous area at all times during deformation

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What determines plastic deformation?

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When stresses exceed the yield stress

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What determines elastic behaviour?

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Total strain is entirely recoverable - total strain is equal to the elastic strain

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What is plastic strain?

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A function of the stress on unloading

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In the stress tensor matrix, which components are considered to represent normal stress?

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Sigma_11, Sigma_22, Sigma_33

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What components are present in the hydrostatic stress tensor?

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Pure tensile or compressive stress

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What components are present in the deviatoric stress tensor?

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Shear stresses of the total stress state

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What physical change is caused by hydrostatic strain?

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Volume change

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What physical change is caused by deviatoric strain?

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Change in shape

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What are the principle stresses?

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Where the stress tensor has zero shear components and non-zero normal stresses

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How do you define the stress state?

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By using all components of the stress tensor

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Name three materials with polycrystalline structures.
Steels, aluminium, titanium alloys
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What is a polycrystalline structure?
Collection of crystals called grains that are joined together, in each grain atoms are arranged into long-range patterns of atomic order with a repetitive 3D pattern
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Name three materials with hexagonal close packed (HCP) structure?
Alpha-titanium, zinc, zirconium
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Name three materials with face-centred cubic (FCC) structure?
Nickel, aluminium, gamma-iron
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Name four materials with body-centred cubic (BCC) structure?
Chromium, beta-titanium, alpha-iron, beta-iron
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What causes lattice defects?
-Crystals are not perfect -Disruptions in their lattice arrangements -Atoms may be positioned in a non-lattice site, or an atom may be missing at a given lattice size
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What are the different types of crystal defect?
-Point -Line -Surface -Volume
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What are some examples of point defect?
Vacancies, interstitial and substitutional atoms
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How are vacancy point defects introduced?
Thermal vibrations of atoms or from imperfect packing during crystallisation
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How can a solute atom be incorporated into a host lattice?
Substitutionally, Interstitially
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What happens when an interstitial atom is inserted into a crystal lattice?
Neighbouring atoms become displaced radially away from the interstitial solute atom
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What are line defects?
Dislocations that are characterised by a chain of atoms that are incorrectly places in the lattice
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Name three types of line defect/dislocation.
-Edge -Screw -Mixed
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How do dislocations interact with each other?
Through their elastic fields, this self induces stress and strains within the crystal
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What is glide (in terms of dislocations)?
Applied shear stresses induce a force on the dislocations, causing them to move on close-packed planes
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How are plastic deformations induced by dislocations?
Shear stresses lead to a displacement of the dislocation through repeated breaking an formation of bonds
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How are slip bands measured experimentally?
Using electron-back-scatter-diffraction (EBSD) and digital image correlation (DIC), where the slip bands are revealed as 'lines' of high strain
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Name three types of surface defect.
-Twins -Staking faults -Grain boundaries
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What physical change can alter grain boundaries?
Temperature
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Name three types of volume defect.
-Voids -Cracks -Foreign inclusions
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How are volume defects introduced into a crystal lattice?
Unintentionally during processing or fabrication
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How is the orientation of a dislocation specified?
By the direction of the tangent vector
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What is a Burgers vector?
The vector needed to close a circuit (around a dislocation), from its final point to the starting point
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How does a Burger vector change for two dislocations?
The circuit measure the total Burgers vector inside the contour
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Describe screw dislocations.
A 'cutting-displace-gluing' mechanism, where the displacement faces are parallel to the edge of the cut
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Describe a mixed dislocation.
Tangent vector varies along the dislocation line, the Burgers vector will be expressed in terms of the perpendicular and parallel components
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Describe how we know that the Burgers vector of dislocations is conserved.
-Consider a dislocation segment with Burgers vector b1 -If the dislocation splits into two other segments with Burgers vectors b2 and b3 -Since the Burgers circuit measure the Burgers vector of dislocations contained within it, b1 = b2 + b3
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What parameters determine the energy of a dislocation?
Shear modulus and magnitude of the Burgers vector
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What are partial dislocations?
Dislocation which has Burgers vector whose magnitude is a fraction of the lattice spacing, the atoms between the partials form a stacking fault
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Why do partial dislocations form?
When there is a reduction in enegry
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How do we determine if a dissociation will occur?
If the energy change associated with the reaction at the first dislocation is greater than that associated with the split dislocations
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How do we determine if two dislocations will combine to form a new segment?
If the energy associated with with the reaction at the first dislocation is lower than that associated with the split dislocations
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What does the Orowan-Bailey relation describe?
Shear strain increment
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What are isomorphous alloys?
Characterised by complete solubility of the two components
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What can be determined from a phase diagram?
The fraction of phase present at equilibrium
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What is the composition and phase fraction of a single phase?
Composition is C_0 and the phase fraction is 1
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How is the phase fraction for a 2-phase region determined?
Using the tie-line and Lever rule
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What parameter is determined by the lever rule?
Mass fraction
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What is a eutectic reaction?
A reaction in which a single liquid changes phase into a 2-phase solid
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Describe ferrite.
-At room temperature the structure is BCC -Low solubility of C atoms in interstitial sites -Can dissolve Cr, Si, W and Mo by substitution
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Describe Austenite.
-At elevated temperature the structure is FCC -Can dissolve more carbon interstitially than Ferrite (Alpha-iron) -Can dissolve by substitution large amounts of Ni and Mn
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Describe Carbide.
-Iron and carbon form the compound cementite -Hard and brittle phase -There can be other alloying elements in the cementite such as Cr, Mn and Mo (carbides)
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What is a eutectoid reaction?
Involves the transformation of solid solution to two phases
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Describe hypoeutectoid steels.
-At 1000 degrees there is a single austenite phase -At 800 degrees there are two phases, austenite and proeutectoid ferrite -At 730 degrees the grain boundaires are plated by proeutectoid ferrite -Cooling below 730 degrees, forms pearlite (a mixture of ferrite and carbide)
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What does the mean melting temperature tell us about Gibbs free energy?
Above the mean melting temperature, the liquid has a lower free energy. For temperatures below the mean melting temperature, the Gibbs free energy of a solid is higher than the Gibbs free energy for a liquid.
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What is the process for solidification in real alloys?
Nucleation and growth of solid particles
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What two contributions are associated with the change in free enery?
-Formation of a volume of solid -Formation of interface separating the solid and liquid phase
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How does a large particle radius affect the nucleation energy?
Decreases it
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What needs to be done by a system with a lower radius compared to critical radius?
Lower its energy by dissolution of the particle
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What happens to a system with a radius is higher than the critical radius?
Free energy decreases by growth of the particle
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How can the critical radius and free energy in terms of undercooling an latent heat of fusion be decreased?
Increasing the undercooling
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How does particle growth of a nucleated phase occur?
Via diffusion of atoms
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What parameter determined the growth rate of particles?
Diffusion coefficient of atomic species making up the phase of the nuclei
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What equation (name) can be used to describe the growth rate of particles?
Arrhenius equation
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Describe the system of particles at a temperature close to the melting temperature.
Nucleation rate is slow with high growth rates, the resulting microstructure will contain relatively few but coarse particles
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Describe a system of transforming particles at lower temperatures (below melting).
Nucleation rate is high and growth rates are slow, resulting in a fine distribution of particles
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What three factors induce phase transitions?
-Change in temperature -Change in composition -Change in applied pressure
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How is Martensite formed?
Steels are rapidly cooled from the austenite phase field to low temperatures
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What is the change in crystal structure that takes place when Martensite is formed?
FCC-BCT (Body centered tetragonal)
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Describe what the yield stress associated with the obstacles in a dislocation line shows.
Stress needed to be applied in order for the dislocation to by-pass the obstacles
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Describe the Frank-Read mechanism.
A dislocation segment is pinned at its ends will blow out under the action of an applied stress (this is an example of a dislocation source)
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Describe solid solution strengthening.
-Solute atoms induce distortions, which inside a stress state -The distortions can result in tensile or compressive stresses -Interstitial atoms 'pull' neighbouring host atoms towards them, this can either induce a tensile stretch or a compressive stress -The elastic field associated with solute atoms can interact with the dislocations, these can pin the dislocation line and restrict motion
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How does yield stress change with the concentration of solute atoms during solid solution strengthening?
As the yield stress of alloys increases, the concentration of solute atoms also increases
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What influence do elastic interactions have on dislocations?
They can pin them
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What effect does plastic deformation have on the number of dislocations?
Number of dislocations increase, as shown by the Orowan-Bailey relation
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How are yield stress and dislocation density related?
Yield stress increases parabolically with the dislocation density
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What is told about the yield stress of a material if is is said to work harden?
Yield stress increases with a decreasing positive gradient
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Describe the Hall-Petch effect.
Smaller grains have higher yield stress compared to larger grains

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