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LAB REPORT
Engineering polymers & composites materials
Presented to: Dr. Mohsin Ali Raza
Submitted by:
Group No. 3
Arslan zahid
Rehan Akbar Butt
Ansir Mahmood
Ahsan Javed
Munam Siddique
Mohsin Ali Zahid
E11-306
E11-308
E11-320
E11-325
E11-326
E11-342
AIM
To determine the following properties by tensile testing of given polymeric materials Teflon and
HDPE
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Elastic Modulus =
Yield strength (from graph)
Tensile strength (from graph)
Fracture strength (from graph)
% total elongation = 100*(lf- lo/lo)
% elastic elongation = 100*(ly - lo/lo)
% plastic elongation = 100*(lf- ly/ly)
f
2
PRINCIPLE
The basic principle of this experiment is to apply load on polymer specimen using Instron 1046
(Table model) plastic testing machine until the specimen fracture. According to machine graph
data stress strain curve was plotted and using this stress strain curve required properties are
determined.
Apparatus &Material Required
Instron 1046 (Table model) plastic testing machine, Teflon, HDPE specimen, Vernier calliper,
Graph paper
Magnification = 8 times
Original length (G.L.) = 9.975 cm
Fracture Length (Final length) = 11.24 cm
Width= 0.445 cm
Thickness= 0.1 cm
Force
(cm)
(Kg)
Strain
Stress
(Force/Area)
(Kg/cm2)
0.2
0.2
0.4
1
1.4
2
2.7
3
3.4
4
4.3
5
5.8
6.6
7
7.4
7.7
18
36
54
86.4
106
126
144
152
162
176.4
181
190
198
200
200
200
198
0.02005
0.02005
0.0401
0.1003
0.14035
0.2005
0.27067
0.30075
0.3408
0.401
0.4311
0.50125
0.58145
0.6617
0.7018
0.7419
0.77193
4.055082
8.110163
12.16524
19.46439
23.87992
28.38557
32.44065
34.24291
36.49573
39.7398
40.7761
42.80364
44.6059
45.05646
45.05646
45.05646
44.6059
Graph HDPE
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
Strain
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
Results
Elastic Modulus = Stress/ Strain
= 1.3 GPa
Yield Strength
According to graph yield strength is 28.7 MPa
Tensile Strength
As the maximum stress which PP specimen bear before plastic deformation 29MPa so
this is its tensile strength.
Fracture strength
= 45 kg/cm2
% total elongation from graph
= 13%
% elastic elongation from graph
= 9.1%
% plastic elongation from graph
= 13 9.1
= 3.9%
Toughness
=2.57 Pa
Discussion
In both of these specimens Teflon shows very high elongation and in experiment fracture was not
occur, this shows that it has very high ductility this might be due to the start of orientation of the
molecules of Teflon in structure. HDPE shows more elastic behaviour and its plastic deformation
region was small showing that although it was a ductile material but its ductility is less.