CM-II Impact Strength Report
CM-II Impact Strength Report
CM-II Impact Strength Report
Materials - I
Laboratory
25 22 2.3094
200 18 2.3094
Plots:
Toughness vs Temperature Line graph
Linear Fit
Precautions:
- Keep your distance when testing machine is running.
- Be aware of surroundings and moving parts.
- Use necessary precautions and safety when handling hot materials.
Conclusion:
We were expecting ideal behavior, but our results are very inaccurate and deviate from
expected results. We wanted to see a decrease in toughness with decreasing temperature
but in our results, we see the opposite trend. This is due to presence of errors like localized
stresses being already present in materials. The fracture surface may give insight to the
presence of defects in sample, and we can identify brittle fractures from fracture surface.
This might also be due to high thermal conductivity of Brass sample as it adjusts itself to
room temperature quickly and our temperature readings are inaccurate. It may also be due
to other expected and unexpected errors as well as human errors.