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    The laboratory experiment involves tensile testing of brass and steel specimens to determine engineering parameters like Young's modulus, yield stress, ultimate tensile stress, and ductility. Students will perform tensile tests on brass and steel specimens using an Instron testing machine and record load-elongation data. They will then analyze the data to calculate engineering stresses and moduli, and compare results between the two materials. Students will also perform a cantilever beam test to determine Young's modulus values for brass and steel. All analysis and calculations will be done online through a provided Excel data file and Connect assignment questions.

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    The laboratory experiment involves tensile testing of brass and steel specimens to determine engineering parameters like Young's modulus, yield stress, ultimate tensile stress, and ductility. Students will perform tensile tests on brass and steel specimens using an Instron testing machine and record load-elongation data. They will then analyze the data to calculate engineering stresses and moduli, and compare results between the two materials. Students will also perform a cantilever beam test to determine Young's modulus values for brass and steel. All analysis and calculations will be done online through a provided Excel data file and Connect assignment questions.

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    The laboratory experiment involves tensile testing of brass and steel specimens to determine engineering parameters like Young's modulus, yield stress, ultimate tensile stress, and ductility. Students will perform tensile tests on brass and steel specimens using an Instron testing machine and record load-elongation data. They will then analyze the data to calculate engineering stresses and moduli, and compare results between the two materials. Students will also perform a cantilever beam test to determine Young's modulus values for brass and steel. All analysis and calculations will be done online through a provided Excel data file and Connect assignment questions.

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    The laboratory experiment involves tensile testing of brass and steel specimens to determine engineering parameters like Young's modulus, yield stress, ultimate tensile stress, and ductility. Students will perform tensile tests on brass and steel specimens using an Instron testing machine and record load-elongation data. They will then analyze the data to calculate engineering stresses and moduli, and compare results between the two materials. Students will also perform a cantilever beam test to determine Young's modulus values for brass and steel. All analysis and calculations will be done online through a provided Excel data file and Connect assignment questions.

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    APPLIED SCIENCE 279 LABORATORY #1

    TENSILE TESTING OF METALS


    Keywords: Young's modulus, elastic and plastic deformation, yield stress, heterogeneous
    yielding, ultimate tensile stress, necking, fracture stress, cup & cone fracture, engineering stress,
    true stress, ductility, % elongation, % reduction of area, resilience, toughness.

    PURPOSE
    The laboratory is designed to familiarize students with the uniaxial tensile test for metals and to
    determine experimental values for several important engineering parameters.

    PROCEDURE

    Non-standard, 20 mm gauge length, brass (65%Cu-35%Zn) and steel (0.18%C) specimens


    will be deformed to failure using Instron instruments. The class will be split into five groups
    and the results of each group will be recorded for comparison and discussion.
    Steel and brass beams are to be loaded as cantilevers. Young's modulus values should be
    calculated based on the deflection values, forces applied and beam dimensions.
    Data sheets are provided. Record lab data and rough calculations. Time will be provided in
    class for doing the basic calculations. Students are required to work on this material in class.
    This will provide practice for completing the on-line assignment.

    ON-LINE ASSIGNMENT
    Data (an Excel file) similar to that collected in the lab period will be provided on the
    Connect website under Assessments. Calculations will be done using this data. Data analysis
    instructions are provided with the data as a separate worksheet in the Excel file. Students will
    answer questions on Connect based on the data and calculations. No report is to be handed in; all
    subsequent course work will be done on-line through Connect. Some relevant information is
    provided below:
    1. Brass yields homogeneously; there is no well-defined yield point. Steel yields
    inhomogeneously; it has a clear yield point. In this lab we determine the yield point for brass
    as the intersection of a line parallel to the linear (elastic) region of the force-elongation curve,
    starting from 0.005 strain, or 0.1 mm, with the curve. For steel it is more obvious. This is
    illustrated in the diagrams below.
    2. The modulus of resilience is given by y2/2E. The result is in Joules/m3.
    To calculate modulus values both y and E should be in Pa.

    3. Toughness (in J/m3) is determined from the area under the stress-strain curve and is estimate
    according to:
    Area

    L p ( y u )
    2L o

    Offset method for determining the yield


    point for brass.

    Determination of yield point for steel


    and determination of other elongations.

    4. If Ao and Ai are the initial and instantaneous areas the true strain t at any specified load is
    given by the expression:
    A
    t ln o
    Ai
    5. The engineering strain at the necking point (ultimate load) is given by the relationship:
    t = ln(1+)
    6. Lp has two components: that occuring up to the onset of necking plus the subsequent
    deformation within the neck:
    Lp = Lu + Lneck

    DATA SHEET : TENSILE TESTING


    Settings
    Full-scale Load:

    5000 N

    Crosshead Speed:

    2.5 mm/min (specimen elongation rate, L/min)

    TENSILE TEST (Data)


    2

    BRASS

    STEEL

    20

    20

    Initial Diameter, Do (mm)


    Final Diameter, Du

    (mm)

    Neck Diameter, Df

    (mm)

    Initial Area, Ao

    (mm2)

    Final Area, Au

    (mm2)

    Neck Area, Af

    (mm2)

    Initial Length, Lo

    (mm)

    Final Length, Lf

    (mm)

    Yield Load, Fy

    (N)

    Ultimate Load, Fu

    (N)

    Fracture Load, Ff

    (N)

    Elongation @ yield Ly (mm)


    Total Plastic Elongation Lp (mm)
    Uniform Plastic Elong. Lu (mm)

    TENSILE TEST (Calculations)


    BRASS
    Yield Stress : y

    Fy

    STEEL

    (MPa)

    A0

    Ultimate Tensile Stress (engineering) u


    Ultimate Tensile Stress (true) T
    Fracture Stress (in neck) f

    Fu
    (MPa)
    A0

    Fu
    Au

    Ff
    Af

    (MPa)
    (MPa)

    A0 Af
    x100
    (%)
    A0
    L f L0
    x100 (%)
    Total % Elongation (measured)
    L0

    % Reduction of Area

    Total % Elongation (chart)


    Elastic Modulus E

    y
    y

    L p
    L0

    x100

    (%)

    (GPa)

    CANTILEVER BEAM
    BRASS

    STEEL

    Beam Length, L (mm)


    Beam Width, a

    (mm)

    6.3

    6.3

    Beam Depth, b

    (mm)

    6.3

    6.3

    (N)

    6.67

    6.67

    Force, F
    Deflection,
    Elastic
    (GPa)

    (mm)

    Modulus

    4 FL3
    ab 3

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