Mat E 202 Assigned: Jan 10, 2018

Winter 2018 Assignment #1 Due: Jan 22, 2018

Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Before answering the following questions re-read the syllabus for formatting your solutions,
and keep in mind the following:
 State your assumptions.
 Being concise, clearly organized, and neat are essential components of a
good solution.
 Show your work, and comment if necessary.
 Use appropriate SI units and decimal places.
 Doing a unit balance is more powerful than you think.
 Don’t forget you have a demonstration kit – it may come in handy.

There will be 6 homework assignments this semester (each with equal weight) totaling 10% of
your final grade. Doing the homework is essential for learning the material for your
individual performance on the midterm and final exams. You may be tempted to just divide
the questions and do each question on your own. A much better approach is to try each question
yourself, have a team meeting, then decide on the best approach, then go and do your portion.
Meeting again to discuss the detailed solution is a good way to check each other’s work and
teach each other what you learned.

The homework will be graded with minor comments and feedback (including ’s and ’s
where you were correct and mistaken respectively). Detailed solutions will be posted on eClass
on or shortly after the due date.

It is your responsibility to check your solutions to the posted solutions and determine your
errors (if any) - get in the habit of doing this, as the exams will have a component that will test
your ability to assess solutions for correctness (a real professional skill that you will need
when the solutions don’t exist in the back of the book, or from your instructor!)

The grading rubric is as follows:

Each question* on each assignment will be worth 2 points, and will be assigned a point value
based on the following rules:

0 questioned unanswered (left blank)

1 more incorrect than correct (major conceptual issues)
2 more correct than incorrect (minor conceptual issues)

*Multipart questions will be graded individually per part.

When in doubt, state your assumptions when answering a question.

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Mat E 202 Assigned: Jan 10, 2018
Winter 2018 Assignment #1 Due: Jan 22, 2018
1. Assemble yourselves into a group of 3 people only. These groups are permanent for the
semester. Your group mates can be anyone whom is currently registered in Mat E 202 this
semester.

Write down names of all group members in ascending alphabetical order by last name
(refer to the syllabus).

You will have to do this formatting for every assignment. If you don’t keep to the
formatting you will be docked – we need to know this information to keep track of your
grades and to return the homework in the appropriate lecture section.

2. List and describe all type(s) of primary bonds present in the following classes of
materials:
a. Ceramics
b. Polymers
c. Metals
d. Polymer-ceramic composite
e. Soda-lime glasses

3. What type(s) of bonding would be expected for each of the following materials?
a. Tungsten
b. Potassium chloride (KCl)
c. Bronze
d. Cadmium telluride (CdTe)
e. Rubber

4. On one set of axes, draw a schematic tensile stress strain curve for each of the following (be
sure to label the axes, and include units – see syllabus for graph construction guide):
a. A stiff ceramic (e.g., silicon carbide)
b. A strong and tough metal (e.g., pearlitic carbon steel)
c. A semiconductor (e.g., doped Si)
d. A compliant polymer (e.g., polyethylene)

5. Consider a cylindrical nickel (Ni) wire 3 mm in diameter and 3 × 103 mm long. Calculate its
elongation when a load of 600 N is applied. Assume that the deformation is totally elastic
and E = 200 GPa.

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Mat E 202 Assigned: Jan 10, 2018
Winter 2018 Assignment #1 Due: Jan 22, 2018
6. For a brass alloy, the stress at which plastic deformation begins is 340 MPa, and the
modulus of elasticity is 100 GPa.
a) What is the maximum load that may be applied to a specimen with a cross-sectional area
of 120 mm2 without plastic deformation?
b) If the original specimen length is 80 mm, what is the maximum length to which it may
be stretched without causing plastic deformation?

7. A cylindrical rod of copper (E = 110 GPa) having a yield strength of 240 MPa is to be
subjected to a load of 6,660 N. If the length of the rod is 360 mm, what must be the diameter
to allow an elongation of 0.60 mm?

8. A cylindrical rod 120 mm long and having a diameter of 15.0 mm is to be deformed using a
tensile load of 46,000 N. It must not experience either plastic deformation or a diameter reduction
of more than 1.2 × 10–2 mm. Of the following materials listed, which are possible candidates?
Justify your choice(s).

Material Modulus of Elasticity (GPa) Yield Strength (MPa) Poisson’s Ratio

Aluminum alloy 70 250 0.33
Titanium alloy 105 850 0.36
Steel alloy 205 550 0.27
Magnesium alloy 45 170 0.35

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Mat E 202 Assigned: Jan 10, 2018
Winter 2018 Assignment #1 Due: Jan 22, 2018
9. Figure (below) shows the tensile engineering stress-strain behavior for a cylindrical specimen
of a steel alloy that has a cross-sectional diameter of 12 mm.

a) What is the modulus of elasticity?

b) What is the proportional limit?
c) What is the yield strength at a strain offset of 0.002?
d) What is the tensile strength?
e) If a load of 120,000 N is applied, will the specimen experience elastic and/or plastic
deformation? Why?

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Mat E 202 Assigned: Jan 10, 2018
Winter 2018 Assignment #1 Due: Jan 22, 2018
10. A specimen of magnesium having a rectangular cross section of dimensions 5 mm × 15 mm
is deformed in tension. Using the load-elongation data tabulated as follows, compute parts
(a) through (e)

Load Length
N mm
0 63.50
1380 63.53
2780 63.56
5630 63.62
7430 63.70
8140 63.75
9870 64.14
12,850 65.41
14,100 66.68
14,340 67.95
13,830 69.22
12,500 70.49
Fracture

a) Plot the data as engineering stress versus engineering strain.

b) Compute the modulus of elasticity.
c) Determine the yield strength at a strain offset of 0.002.
d) Determine the tensile strength of this alloy.
e) Compute the modulus of resilience.

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Mat E 202 Assigned: Jan 10, 2018
Winter 2018 Assignment #1 Due: Jan 22, 2018
INTENDED LEARNING GOALS FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT

Declarative knowledge
Types of atomic bonds
Classes of materials
Definitions of elastic and plastic deformation, toughness

Procedural knowledge
Determination of bond type from class of material
Tensile test curve construction (stress-strain diagrams)
Proper use of units, nomenclature, and vocabulary

Conditional knowledge
Determining bond type and class of materials for any material
Conceptualizing elastic and plastic deformation response for different applied stresses and
applications

Reflective knowledge
Connection between bond type and elastic and plastic deformation response
Difference in deformation response in different materials and designs
Bond type is the single most important characteristic of a material because most properties
can be derived from the nature of the atomic bond (and you thought you would never need
chemistry again!)