Assessment of Strength and Toughness

A first year undergraduate practical which illustrates the concepts of strength, toughness, scatter and material properties.

strength, toughness

Impact testing machine
strength, toughness

Effectively like an IZOD test but with very small samples
strength, toughness

Broken samples of acrylic, nylon, aluminium, zinc, extruded mild steel, quenched high-carbon steel, quenched and tempered high-carbon steel
strength, toughness

There are two weights on the machine. The heavier one is removed for brittle materials
strength, toughness

These are the collated results from a large number of students. The Zn is anomalous because it has a limited number of slip systems.






Carbides in bearings Thermal stability Induction welding Bearings Bain
Duplex steel Ternary pearlite Thermal stability Cementite dissolution Strain partitioining
FSW tools Stabilisation Bearing steel HCP martensite Atomic displacements

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