Welding Metallurgy of Steels

CHMT 7049

Assignment
Due 28 June 2013
1. Explain the work hardening exponent as found in the true stress- true strain curve and how it impacts on the shape of the curve. [3]

2. What is the relationship between hardness, yield point and UTS? What do you have to be careful of? [5]

3. When would you perform the Robertson Crack Arrest Test? Discuss the usefulness of this technique. [6]

4. Draw direction vectors in unit cubes for the following cubic directions

a) [214] b) [123] [4] 5. What are the indices of the direction b shown in the unit cube below?

[3]

5. What will be the corrosion rate of a steel coupon exposed to a sulphuric acid solution with a weight loss of 0.12 g over a period of 2 weeks? Describe the corrosion rate. The coupon dimensions are shown below:

Length - 50 mm; Width 20 mm; Thickness 1,5 mm; and the hole size is 4 mm. [5]

6. Explain how you would determine a valid plane strain fracture toughness value.

[4]

7. How can the Jominy hardenability test be used?

[3]

8. Define hardenability. And how can you influence it?

[2]

9. A hypoeutectoid steel contains 60.0% eutectoid ferrite (seen from the microstructure). What is the average carbon content? [4]

10. A 0.90% C hypereutectoid plain-carbon steel is slowly cooled from 950C to a temperature just slightly below 723C. (a) Calculate the weight percent proeutectoid ferrite in the steel. (b) Calculate the weight percent eutectoid ferrite and eutectoid cementite in the steel. [6]

TOTAL = 45