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    MET213E-midterm 2020-2021

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    MET213E-midterm 2020-2021

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    Number: 09.12.2020
    MET 213E- FUNDAMENTALS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
    MIDTERM EXAMINATION Exam Duration : 100 min.
    A. Answer following questions as True or False.
    1. (T) (F) Materials with ionic bonding are characterized by bonds that are formed by sharing of valence
    electrons among two or more atoms.
    2. (T) (F) A direction and its multiple are identical.
    3. (T) (F) [110] is a close-packed direction in BCC.
    4. (T) (F) Surface defects include grain boundaries.
    5. (T) (F) Small angle boundaries formed by edge dislocations are called twin boundaries.
    6. (T) (F) The screw dislocation can be illustrated by slicing partway through a perfect crystal, spreading
    the crystal apart, and partly filling the cut with an extra half plane of atoms.
    7. (T) (F) Fick’s first law describes the dynamic, or non-steady state diffusion of atoms.
    8. (T) (F) Generally more energy is required for a substitutional atom than for an interstitial atom.
    9. (T) (F) The hardness test measures the resistance of a material to penetration and provides a measure
    of the wear and abrasion resistance of the material.
    10. (T) (F) The fatigue test provides information on the load-carrying ability of a material at high
    temperatures.
    B. Answer Following questions
    1. The force-distance (F-a) curve for two materials (1 and 2) is shown in figure.
    a) Which one has higher elasticity modulus? Please briefly
    explain.

    b) Which one has higher binding energy? Please briefly


    explain.

    2. a) Sketch within a cubic unit cell the following planes and directions:

    i) [ 112 ] ii) [101] iii) ( 02 1 ) iv) (102)

    b) Determine the miller indices for the A, B and C directions


    shown in the following unit cells (show stages):
    c) Determine the Miller indices for the A, B and C planes shown in the following unit C
    cells (show stages):
    A B

    3. For a BCC material; (a=0.42 nm)


    a) Calculate the repeat distance in the [100], [110], [111] directions

    b) Calculate the linear density in the [100], [110], [111] directions

    c) Calculate packing fractions for the [100], [110], [111] directions.

    4. CsBr has the cesium chloride (CsCl) structure. (rCs=1.67A°, rBr=1.96A°, mCs=79.09, mBr=132.95 g/mol)
    a) Sketch a CsBr unit cell showing location of ions

    b) Calculate number of net atoms in the CsBr unit cell

    c) Calculate the lattice parameter

    d) Calculate the theoretical density (gr/cm3)

    e) Calculate the ionic packing factor

    5. a) Please classify the ionic structures. What is the main parameter for this classification?

    b) Which special type of crystal structure Diamond has?


    6. “In BCC metals, critical resolved shear stress which is necessary to initiate the deformation hundred times higher than
    that of FCC”. Please explain this expression drawing required figures.

    7. Why is the theoretical strength of metals much higher than that observed experimentally?

    8. a) Draw a Burgers circuit around the dislocation shown in Figure and clearly indicate the Burgers vector that you
    find. What type of dislocation is this?

    b) Determine direction and miller indices of Burgers vector.

    (112)
    c) Calculate length of Burgers vector. (Lattice parameter (a0)=2.15 A°)

    9. The diffusion coefficient for Ni in a steel is 10-22 m2/s at 500˚C and 10-15 m2/s at 1000˚C. Calculate;
    a) the activation energy
    b) the constant D0 (R = 1.987 cal/mol.K)

    10. Please explain the σa yield strength on engineering stress-strain diagram by taking into consideration Schmid’s law
    and Hall-Petch equation.

    11. There are five crystal defects in the following figure. Find them on the figure and determine their type.

    4
    2

    5
    12. a) Explain the Ductile-Brittle transition temperature by drawing the relevant figure.

    b) Draw the impact energy-temperature curve for the YMK and HMK structures and explain the differences.

    13. a) Why is it that the activation energy for diffusion via the interstitial mechanism is smaller than those for other
    mechanisms? (sketch required figures and explain detailed)

    b) Does this activation energy change with temperature? (explain by using equations)

    c) What is sintering? What is the driving force for sintering? (Explain)

    14. a) Draw a stress-strain diagram for plain carbon steel and show mechanical properties of this material on your
    stress-strain diagram.

    b) Why the true stress-strain curve is different from engineering stress-strain curve.

    c) “In engineering stress-strain curve stress decrease after maximum stress even though applied force increase.”
    Please explain this expression.

    15. Considering the given microstructure images, write the possible reasons for the fracture.

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