Scribd
Upload
42 views4 pages

Assignment 02 - IPE2230 3

The document is an assignment containing 27 questions related to engineering materials. It covers topics like Miller indices, drawing planes and directions in cubic and hexagonal unit cells, types of lattice defects, dislocations, grain boundaries, strengthening mechanisms, and amorphous materials. It asks the student to define terms, draw figures, describe concepts, and convert between 3 and 4 index crystallographic notation for hexagonal systems. The assignment aims to test the student's understanding of key crystallographic and materials concepts.

Uploaded by

MD Al-Amin
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
42 views4 pages

Assignment 02 - IPE2230 3

The document is an assignment containing 27 questions related to engineering materials. It covers topics like Miller indices, drawing planes and directions in cubic and hexagonal unit cells, types of lattice defects, dislocations, grain boundaries, strengthening mechanisms, and amorphous materials. It asks the student to define terms, draw figures, describe concepts, and convert between 3 and 4 index crystallographic notation for hexagonal systems. The assignment aims to test the student's understanding of key crystallographic and materials concepts.

Uploaded by

MD Al-Amin
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 4

Produced with a Trial Version of PDF Annotator - www.PDFAnnotator.

com

Assignment 02

IPE 2230: Engineering Materials-II

Date of Submission: 01/02/2021

Q1. What is miller index? How is it obtained?

Q2. Draw the planes (1̅ 1̅ 0), (1 2̅ 1), (2 3̅ 4), (1̅ 1 2) and directions[1 1 1̅], [123], [120], [1 2̅ 1] in a cubic
unit cell.

Q3. Why it is necessary to include a fourth miller index in the hexagonal system?

Q4. Convert the directions [112], [1 2̅ 3], [110], [111], [130] to four indices in a hexagonal lattice.

Q5. What is family of planes? Draw the {111} family of planes in cubic system?

Q6. What aspect of the crystals changes across the grain boundaries?

Q7. How is the gain size measured in a polycrystalline material?

Q8. What is effect of grain boundaries on strength of metals?

Q9. Are grain boundaries desirable for high temperature structural application? Give reasons for your
answer.

Q10. What is meant by amorphous material?

Q11. How can a metallic system be made into an amorphous material?

Q12. How many types of lattice defects exist?

Q13. What is an interstitialcy and how it is different from an impurity atom?

Q14. What is dislocation? What is Burger vector?

Q15. Draw the atomic arrangement around an edge dislocation and show the extra half-plane.

Q16. What is the fundamental difference between edge and screw dislocation?

Q17. What is Burger circuit?

Q18. Why the ideal strength of metals is less than the actual measured values?

Q19. Why is the movement of dislocations compared to caterpillar?

Q20. How does dislocation movement produce plastic deformation?

Q21. How do dislocations appear when observed an electron microscope?

Q22. From a dislocation mechanism point of view how can one increase the strength of metals?
Q23. What is meant by a polycrystalline material?

Q24. What is a grain?

Q25. Is the orientation of the crystal across a grain boundary same? Why?

Q26. How do grain boundaries affect strength of a material?

Part 2
Q1. Describe the correlation between the dislocation and plastic deformation in metals.

Q2. Describe the mechanism of plastic deformation in metal.

Q3. Mention the names of different strengthening mechanisms in metal.

Q4. Describe strengthening mechanism by grain size reduction in metals.

Q5. Describe Solid solution strengthening mechanism.

Q6. Describe strain hardening, precipitation hardening and solid solution strengthening
mechanism in metals.

Q7. Write short notes on fiber hardening and Martensite strengthening mechanism.

Q8. What are grain boundaries? How do grain boundaries impede dislocation motion? Explain the
variation of yield strength with grain size according to Hall-petch relation.
Q9. What is the basic principle to strengthen a metal? Mention the common strengthening mechanisms of
metals.
Q10. (a) Within a cubic unit cell, sketch the following directions:

(i)[ 1̅10], (ii)[ 01̅2], (iii)[ 1̅2̅1] and (iv)[ 021 ]


(b) Sketch within a cubic unit cell the following planes:
(i)( 112̅ ), (ii)[ 102̅ ], (iii)[ 13̅1] and (iv)[ 1̅11̅ ]

Q11. What is "edge dislocations"? Briefly, explain the mechanism in which a material deforms based on
dislocation movement.
Q12. What is a solid solution? For a substitutional solid solution, what are the factors that affect the
solubility of the solute in the solvent?
Q13. Draw (010) and (111) crystallographic planes and [110] and [101] crystallographic directions within
a unit cell.
Part 3

Q1. Determine the indices for the planes shown in the following hexagonal unit cells:

Q2. Explain why the properties of polycrystalline materials are most often isotropic.
Q3. Determine the Miller indices for the planes shown in the following unit cell:

Q4. What is the difference between atomic structure and crystal structure?

Q5. If the indices of direction in 3 index system is [𝑢′ 𝑣 ′ 𝑤 ′ ] and in 4 index system is [uvtw] then derive
the relation for the conversion of 3 index to 4 index system.

Q6. Convert the (010) and (101) planes into the four-index Miller–Bravais scheme for hexagonal unit
cells.
Q7. Convert the [100] and [111] directions into the four-index Miller–Bravais scheme for hexagonal unit
cells.
Q8. Determine indices for the directions shown in the following hexagonal unit cells:

You might also like