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Material Engineering Assignment 1

This document outlines an assignment in materials engineering that includes calculating properties of unit cells, determining crystal structures, and sketching planes and directions within unit cells. The assignment contains 12 questions involving calculating volumes and densities of unit cells, finding ideal c/a ratios, atomic packing factors, and indices of planes and directions in cubic and hexagonal crystal structures. It also involves determining crystal structures based on density and atomic radius, sketching specific planes and directions within unit cells, and calculating linear and planar densities.

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Material Engineering Assignment 1

This document outlines an assignment in materials engineering that includes calculating properties of unit cells, determining crystal structures, and sketching planes and directions within unit cells. The assignment contains 12 questions involving calculating volumes and densities of unit cells, finding ideal c/a ratios, atomic packing factors, and indices of planes and directions in cubic and hexagonal crystal structures. It also involves determining crystal structures based on density and atomic radius, sketching specific planes and directions within unit cells, and calculating linear and planar densities.

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Assignment #1

Materials Engineering
(IV Semester, Mech. Engg.)

1. If the atomic radius of Al is 0.143 nm. Calculate the volume of its unit cell in cubic meters.
2. For HCP crystal structure, show that the ideal c/a ratio is 1.633.
3. Find the Atomic packing factor for SC, BCC, FCC, & HCP unit cells.
4. Calculate the radius of an Iridium atom, given that Ir has an FCC crystal structure, a density of
22.4 g/cm3, and atomic weight of 192.2 g/mol.
5. Rhodium has an atomic radius of 0.1345 nm and a density of 12.41 g/cm3. Determine whether it
has an FCC or BCC structure.

6. This is a unit cell for a hypothetical metal, where a= b= 0.35nm


and c= 0.45nm. and α =β =γ = 90°

a) To which crystal system unit cell belong,


b) What would this crystal str. be called?
c) Calculate the density of the material given
that its atomic weight is 141g/mol.
7. Determine the indices for the shaded planes and directions shown in hexagonal structure shown
below.

8. Determine the Miller Indices for the planes (hatched) and directions shown in cubic cells shown
below.
z z z

y y y
½
½ ½
X x x
9. Sketch within a cubic unit cell the following planes and directions
(0 1 1); (1 1 2); (1 0 2); 1 3 1); (1 1 1); [1 2 2], [1 2 3]; [0 1 3]
10. Sketch the atomic packing of the (100) plane for FCC cell and (111) plane for BCC crystal
structure.
11. What do you understand by linear and planar density
12. How many atoms per mm2 are there on the (100) & (111) planes of Pb having FCC and radius
0.1750 nm.

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