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Material Test Report Mechanical Info

03/31/2014 5:54 AM

Hi,

I am a young mech design engineer and often wondered why on MTR's RoA and Elongation is given as a percentage instaed of a value. The tensile and yield are given as a value but no info on youngs modulus and poissons ratio is given.

Can anyone give me a brief explaination on how to interpret the info given in MTR's and perhaps reference to specs to follow up?

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Re: MaterialTestReport mechanical info

03/31/2014 8:36 AM

<...why...Elongation is given as a percentage instead of a value....>

Because strain is dimensionless.

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Re: MaterialTestReport mechanical info

03/31/2014 9:14 AM

Thank you PWSlack for the message.... I understand that bit thats why i stated a value!

Since strain=delta len/len org, the original length would be 1m then when loading is applied becomes say 1.1m. therefore eng strain = 0.1 = 10% expressed in %

Is the elongation at failure or at the 0.2% yield? and if i want to calcualte E at the elastic portion of hooks law how would you go about it.

Also if i know that the reduction of area is 40% example what does that tell me? Is this used to calculate poissons ratio?

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03/31/2014 9:34 AM

<...Is the elongation at failure or at the 0.2% yield?...>

It is not possible to say without knowing details about the material being stretched and its temperature.

  • If it were, say, glass at ambient temperature, then it might not get to 0.2% before catastrophic failure. Raise the temperature high enough and the glass will undergo plastic deformation well before failure.
  • If it were, say a rubber band at ambient temperature then it might get to 300% or even 400% before failure. If it were raised to the same temperature in air as the glass above, then it will catch fire before any extension is applied.

<...want to calcuate E at the elastic portion of hooks law....>

E is the gradient of the elastic portion of the line on the stress/strain diagram for the material in question at the temperature stated thereon. There is no need to calculate it for many common materials as it can be looked up; one suggestion as to where is Kempe's Engineers' Yearbook, any edition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%27s_ratio

<...the reduction of area is 40% example what does that tell...>

Absolutely nothing more than that on its own. One needs either the extension to calculate Poisson's Ratio or one needs Poisson's Ratio to calculate the extension; that's the reason the property is called a "ratio".

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