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1. Explain what a most closely packed direction is. Why it might be important?
2. What are the Miller ndices for a most closely packed plane in the BCC system?
3. What are the Miller ndices for a most closely packed plane in the FCC system?
4. What is the difference between the most closely packed planes in the BCC, and in the FCC
crystallographic systems?
5. What is an octahedral plane?
6. Explain what slip is.
7. What is elastic deformation?
8. What happens to the atoms during elastic deformation?
9. What is plastic deformation?
10. What is the role that dislocations play during plastic deformation?
11. Do all metals show the same ductility? Why or why not?
12. Why a metal deforms plastically instead of breaking?
13. What is stress?
14. s there any difference between stress and load? EXPLAN!
15. What is strain?
16. What is Elastic Modulus and how it can be found from an engineering !- " curve?
17. Why is important to define the conditions where elastic response terminates and plastic flow
begins?
18. What is resilience?
19. How can the modulus of resilience be calculated?
20. What is toughness?
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21. What is the yield point?
22. What is the tensile strength of a material? Why might it be less significant than the yield
strength?
23. At what point on the !- " curve does necking occur?
24. What is the difference between ductile and brittle response in a material?
25. How can the tensile test provide an indication of material ductility?
26. How does the orientation of the slip planes affect the strength of a metal?
27. Explain Schmid's Law.
28. What is twinning, and how can it aid plastic deformation?
29. How can a metal be made stronger by changing the grain size?
30. What is stronger, a pure metal or a solid solution? Why?
31. What is cold work?
32. Which properties are affected in a metal by cold work (work hardening or strain hardening)
and how are these properties affected?
33. What is annealing?
34. What is annealing used for?
35. What are the stages of annealing?
36. What are the changes that a metal suffers at each stage in the annealing process?
37. What are the factor affecting the Trex?
38. What is considered low temperature?
39. What is hot work?
40. What is the difference between ductile and brittle fracture?
41. What is fracture mechanics?
42. How does the sharpness of a crack affect the propagation of such crack?
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43. s an internal crack more damaging that an external one? Why or why not?
44. What is fatigue?
45. What is endurance limit?
46. What is fatigue life?
47. What are the factors that affect fatigue?
48. What is creep?
49. What is the most important stage of creep? Why?
50. How can creep be diminished?