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Lab in engineering materials

Also listed as: מעבדה בחומרים הנדסיים

Tensile, hardness, impact and metallography, at one weekly hour. It is the cheapest way to clear the advanced-laboratory requirement, and it teaches you to read a fracture surface.

Semester
Semester A
Weekly hours
1h
Counts as
Advanced laboratories
Interest areas
Miniaturised systems and materials · Structures and computational mechanics

Comes after

  • Introduction to materials science

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What it covers

Experiments

  • Tensile testing: stress-strain curve, modulus, yield, UTS, ductility
  • Hardness: Rockwell, Vickers, Brinell, and the correlations between them
  • Charpy impact and the ductile-to-brittle transition
  • Metallography: sectioning, mounting, polishing, etching, microscopy
  • Heat treatment and phase transformations
  • Fractography, and an introduction to fatigue and creep

Results worth carrying out

  • Engineering and true stress

    σ=PA0,σt=σ(1+ε)\sigma = \frac{P}{A_0}, \qquad \sigma_t = \sigma(1+\varepsilon)
  • Hollomon hardening

    σ=Kεn\sigma = K\,\varepsilon^{\,n}
  • Basquin, the S–N curve

    σa=σf(2Nf)b\sigma_a = \sigma_f'\,(2N_f)^{b}

Figures worth knowing

  • Stress-strain curves
  • Micrographs
  • Charpy transition curves
  • S–N curves
  • Fracture surfaces
  • Phase diagrams

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