MatS 2001 - Fall 2013 Problem Set 2:

2-1 6.47 in Callister 2-2 6.52 in Callister 2-3 A 2 cm by 2 cm by 2 cm rubber engine mount (E = 30 MPa, Poisson ratio = 0.4999) must support a 300 kg motor. What (maximum) deflection (in cm) will occur for a.) vertical and b.) horizontal mountings. Assume the weight is uniformly distributed across a face of of the material. Note, in the vertical mount the motor sits atop the mount, while in the horizontal geometry the motor is mounted on the side of the mount, which is supported on the opposite side. c) Is the engine mount properly designed for horizontal mounting? Explain briefly why.

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2-4 A tensile test of 70-30 brass produced the following data (none of these readings was taken at maximum load). Load, kN 0 53.8 55.1 Diameter, mm 12.8 11.4 10.7 8.26 Length, mm 50.8 63.5 68.6 74.9

Initial Reading 1 Reading 2 Fracture

Calculate A.) The tensile strength of this specimen, B.) the maximum engineering strain during the test, C.) the diameter of the specimen at the instant of maximum load. 2-5 8.6 in Callister 2-6 If the specific surface energy for soda-lime glass is 0.30 J/m2 and the elastic modulus is 70 GPa, compute the critical stress required for the propagation of a surface crack of length 0.05 mm. 2-7 A polystyrene component must not fail when a tensile stress of 1.25 MPa is applied. Determine the maximum allowable surface crack length if the surface energy of polystyrene is 0.50 J/m2. Use a modulus of elasticity of 3.0 GPa. 2-8 A 4140 steel alloy beam is designed to support a load at 50% of the yield stress. The beam
is bolted to a bridge truss using a hole drilled through the center. What is the maximum allowable hole diameter? Assume Y = 1.4. Note, given more than one choice of material data, choose conservatively.

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Fatigue data for a brass alloy are given as follows: Stress Amplitude (MPa) 170 148 130 114 92 80 74 Cycles to failure 3.7x104 1.0x105 3.0x105 1.0x106 1.0x107 1.0x108 1.0x109

Make an S-N plot using these data. (A) Determine the fatigue strength at 4x106 cycles (B) Determine the fatigue life in number of cycles for 120 MPa. 2-10 Consider a flat plate of some metal alloy that is to be exposed to repeated tensilecompressive cycling in which the mean stress is 25 MPa. If the initial and critical surface crack lengths are 0.15 and 4.5 mm, respectively, and the values of m and A are 3.5 and 2 x 10-14, respectively (for in MPa and a in m), estimate the maximum tensile stress to yield a fatigue life of 2.5 x107 cycles. Assume the parameter Y has a value of 1.4, which is independent of crack length.

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