King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Mechanical Engineering Department
ME 216: Materials Science & Engineering
(242)
Homework # 4
Assigned on: Sunday, April 13, 2025
Due date: Sunday, April 20, 2025
(This page should be used as a cover page of the homework)
Name: Ali Almubarak ID#: 202258220
Section #: 03
Warning: Copying any problem or part of a problem will result in zero grade for the whole
homework.
Problems Marks Grades
1 15
2 15
3 15
4 10
5 15
6 15
7 15
Total 100
Problem 1:
For A36 steel bar, the yield strength is 220 MPa, the modulus of elasticity is 207 GPa, and
Poisson’s ratio is 0.30, and of a square cross section 8x8 mm2.
a. What is the maximum load that may be applied without causing plastic deformation?
b. If the original specimen length is 2000 mm, what is the maximum length to which it may be
stretched without causing plastic deformation?
c. What is the maximum change in the bar side under pure elastic deformation?
Solution:
Problem 2:
A round bar of a steel alloy that exhibits the stress–strain behavior shown in the given figure is
subjected to a tensile load; the specimen is 100 mm long, a diameter of 20 mm.
a. Compute the magnitude of the load necessary to produce an elastic elongation of 2.5 mm.
b. What will be the deformation after the load calculated in part a has been released?
c. Compute the magnitude of the load necessary to produce a total strain of 10% ( = 0.1).
d. What will be the specimen length while applying the load of part c?
e. What will be the specimen length after removing (unloading) the load of part c?
Solution:
Problem 3
For a 304 stainless steel alloy, a true stress of 800 MPa produces a true plastic strain of 0.355.
Assume a value of 0.45 for the strain-hardening exponent n in the equation = K n.
a. Calculate the constant K.
b. What is the true plastic strain if a true stress of 1000 MPa is applied?
c. How much will a specimen of this material elongate after unloading if the original length is
500 mm?
Solution:
Problem 4
(a) A single crystal of a metal that has the BCC crystal structure is oriented such that a tensile
stress is applied in the [010] direction. If the magnitude of this stress is 2.75 MPa, compute the
resolved shear stress in the [1̅11] direction on each of the (110) and (101) planes. On the basis
of these resolved shear stress values, which slip system is more favorably oriented?
Solution:
(b) Consider a single crystal oriented such that the slip direction and normal to the slip plane are
at angles 42.7° and 48.3°, respectively, with the tensile axis. If the critical resolved shear stress
is 26.6 MPa, what applied stress (in MPa) will be necessary to cause the single crystal to yield?
Solution:
Problem 5
(a) Calculate the tensile strength and ductility (%EL) of a cylindrical brass rod if it is cold worked
such that the diameter is reduced from 19.5 mm to 13.2 mm, use the figures below to get the final
values.
Solution:
(b) Two previously undeformed cylindrical specimens of an alloy are to be strain hardened by
reducing their cross-sectional areas (while maintaining their circular cross sections). For one
specimen, the initial and deformed radii are 17 mm and 12 mm, respectively. The second specimen,
with an initial radius of 13 mm, must have the same deformed hardness as the first specimen;
compute the second specimen's radius after deformation.
Solution:
Problem 6:
(a) Through conducting thermo-mechanical processes, you want to strengthen pure aluminum
material via grain boundary strengthening method. Initially material had the grain size of
𝑑𝑐𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑒 = 110 μm (Hall-Petch constant k = 3.8 N/mm3/2). In a tensile test, the yield strength
is found to be 30MPa. What grain size is required to raise the yield strength to a value of 125
MPa ?
Solution:
(b) The yield strength for an alloy that has an average grain diameter of 5.4 x 10-2 mm is 134 MPa.
At a grain diameter of 6.3 × 10-3 mm, the yield strength increases to 249 MPa. At what grain
diameter, in mm, will the yield strength be 243 MPa?
Solution:
Problem 7
(a) A cylindrical rod of brass originally 10 mm in diameter is to be cold worked by drawing. The
circular cross section will be maintained during deformation. A cold-worked tensile strength
in excess of 380 MPa and a ductility of at least 15 %EL are desired. Furthermore, the final
diameter must be 7.5 mm. Explain how this may be accomplished.
Solution:
