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MMEN 120 - Crystal Structures Practice Questions

This document contains 21 practice questions about crystal structures, including the most common metal crystal structures, unit cell properties for BCC, FCC, and HCP structures, crystallographic directions and planes, and calculations involving lattice parameters, atomic radii, and densities for different crystal structures and directions. Example calculations are provided for determining lattice constants, unit cell volumes, and linear and planar atomic densities in various crystal structures.

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MMEN 120 - Crystal Structures Practice Questions

This document contains 21 practice questions about crystal structures, including the most common metal crystal structures, unit cell properties for BCC, FCC, and HCP structures, crystallographic directions and planes, and calculations involving lattice parameters, atomic radii, and densities for different crystal structures and directions. Example calculations are provided for determining lattice constants, unit cell volumes, and linear and planar atomic densities in various crystal structures.

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MMEN 120

Crystal Structures

Practice Questions

1. What are the three most common metal crystal structures? List five metals
that have each of these crystal structures.
2. For a BCC, FCC and HCP unit cell,
a. How many atoms are there inside the unit cell?
b. What is the coordination number for the atoms?
c. What is the relationship between the lattice parameter “a” and the
radius of atoms?
d. What is the atomic packing factor?
3. What are the crystallographic directions of a family? What generalized
notation is used to indicate them?
4. What are the crystallographic planes of a family? What generalized notation
is used to indicate them?
5. What is the difference in the stacking arrangement of close-packed planes in
the HCP crystal structure and the FCC crystal structure?
6. What are the closest-packed directions in (a) the BCC structure, (b) the FCC
structure, and (c) the HCP structure?
7. Tungsten at 20°C is BCC and has an atomic radius of 0.137 nm.
a. Calculate a value for its lattice constant a in nanometers.
b. Calculate the volume of the unit cell.
8. Lead is FCC and has an atomic radius of 0.175 nm.
a. Calculate a value for its lattice constant a in nanometers.
b. Calculate the volume of the unit cell in nm 3.
9. Draw the following directions in a BCC unit cell, and list the position
coordinates of the atoms whose centers are intersected by the direction
vector.
a. [010]
b. [011]
c. [111]

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10. What are the indices of the directions shown in the unit cubes of Figure 1?

Figure 1

11. What are the directions of the 〈111〉 family or form for a unit cube? Draw all
directions in a BCC unit cell. Can you identify a special quality of these
directions?
12. What 〈110〉 type directions lie on the (111) plane of a cubic unit cell? Draw
those directions in an FCC unit cell. Can you identify a special quality of these
directions?
13. What 〈111〉 type directions lie on the (110) plane of a BCC unit cell? Draw those
directions in a unit cell. Can you identify a special quality of these directions?
14. Draw in unit cubes the crystal planes that have the following Miller indices:
a. (010)
b. (101)
c. (111)
d. (111)
e. (102)
f. (321)
g. (331)
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15. What are the Miller indices of the cubic crystallographic planes shown in
Figure 2.

Figure 2

16. Without drawing any of the hexagonal planes given below, determine which of
the planes is, in fact, not a plane.
a. (1010)
b. (1010)
c. (1110
17. Calculate the linear atomic density in atoms per millimeter for the following
directions in BCC vanadium, which has a lattice constant of 0.3039 nm:
a. [100]
b. [110]
c. [111]
18. Calculate the linear atomic density in atoms per millimeter for the following
directions in FCC iridium, which has a lattice constant of 0.38389 nm:
a. [100]
b. [110]
c. [111].

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19. Calculate the planar atomic density in atoms per square millimeter for the
following crystal planes in BCC chromium, which has a lattice constant of
0.28846 nm. Compare the values and draw a conclusion.
a. (100)
b. (110)
c. (111)
20. Calculate the planar atomic density in atoms per square millimeter for the
following crystal planes in FCC gold, which has a lattice constant of 0.40788
nm. Compare the values and draw a conclusion.
a. (100)
b. (110)
c. (111)
21. Titanium goes through a polymorphic change from BCC to HCP crystal
structure upon cooling through 332°C. Calculate the percentage change in
volume when the crystal structure changes from BCC to HCP. The lattice
constant a of the BCC unit cell at 882°C is 0.332 nm, and the HCP unit cell has
a = 0.2950 nm and c = 0.4683 nm.

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