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Materials Science: 10 Things Every Engineer Should Know Quiz

Quiz 01: Thing 1

Q1. The first three categories introduced in this segment (metals, polymers, and ceramics) are based on the three types of primary bonding: metallic, ________, and ionic, respectively.


     

    • secondary
    • van der Waals
    • covalent

    Q2. Glasses are considered a category separate from ceramics because their chemistry is different, even though their atomic structure is the same.

    • True
    • False

    Q3. Fiberglass is a good example of a ___________ combining the strength and stiffness of reinforcing glass fibers with the ductility of the polymeric matrix.

    • ceramic
    • composite
    • semiconductor

    Q4. Semiconductors are considered a category separate from metals because their electrical conductivity is different.

    • True
    • False



    Q5. The relationship between atomic bonding and the elastic modulus or stiffness of a metal is an example of how structure (atomic-level in this case) leads to _____________.

    • permanent deformation
    • properties
    • breakage

    Quiz 02: Thing 2

    Q1. Aluminum metal is an example of a ______________.

    • simple cubic crystal structure
    • body-centered cubic crystal structure
    • face-centered cubic crystal structure

    Q2. The vacancy and the interstitial are two common types of point defects in metallic crystal structures.

    • True
    • False

    Q3. The Arrhenius relationship shows that the rate of chemical reactions increases _______________ temperature.

    • linearly with
    • exponentially with
    • with the fourth power of

    Q4. The Arrhenius plot is a linear set of data points in which the logarithm of rate is plotted against the ____________.

    • absolute temperature in K
    • inverse temperature in K-1
    • temperature in °C



    Q5. The activation energy, Q, for a chemical reaction is indicated by the _______________ of the Arrhenius plot.

    • slope
    • intercept at 1/T=0
    • intercept at 1/T=1

    Q6. The gas constant, R, is equal to _______________ times the Boltzmann’s constant, k.

    • 1024
    • Avogadro’s number
    • 10-24

    Q7. The gas constant, R, is an appropriate term for equations describing gas phases and ________________ processes.

    • solid-state
    • no other
    • all other

    Q8. The energy needed to produce a single vacancy, Ev, is the same as the activation energy, Q.

    • True
    • False

    Q9. Solid-state diffusion occurs in the face centered cubic structure of aluminum by individual aluminum atoms hopping into _______________ sites.

    • adjacent occupied
    • adjacent interstitial
    • adjacent vacant

    Q10. As an indication of how “close packed” the aluminum (FCC) crystal structure is, ________ of the volume of the unit cell is occupied by the aluminum atoms.

    • 74%
    • 70%
    • 68%

    Q11. The diffusion coefficient is defined by _______________.

    • Fick’s second law
    • Fick’s first law
    • Fick’s third law

    Q12. The diffusivity (D) of copper in a brass alloy is 10-20 m2/s at 400 °C. The activation energy for copper diffusion in this system is 195 kJ/mol. The diffusivity at 600 °C is _____________.


       

      • 2.93 x 10-16 m2/s
      • 5.86 x 10-17 m2/s
      • 2.93 x 10-17 m2/s

      Quiz 01: Thing 3

      Q1. An edge dislocation corresponds to an extra ______________.

      • full plane of atoms
      • cluster of atoms
      • half-plane of atoms

      Q2. An edge dislocation is a linear defect with the Burgers vector _______________ to the dislocation line.

      • at a 45 degree angle
      • perpendicular
      • parallel

      Q3. Crushing an empty soda can made of aluminum alloy is an example of ______________.

      • viscous deformation
      • plastic deformation
      • elastic deformation

      Q4. Plastic deformation by dislocation motion is a ___________ alternative to deforming a defect-free crystal structure.

      • high-stress
      • low-stress
      • stress-free

      Quiz 02: Thing 4

      Q1. The first of the “big four” mechanical properties obtained in the tensile test is ___________________.

      • yield strength
      • elastic modulus
      • tensile strength

      Q2. The tensile strength is ___________ the yield strength for typical metal alloys.

      • greater than
      • about the same as
      • less than

      Q3. The ductility corresponds to the ______________.

      • strength at failure
      • total amount of elastic deformation
      • strain at failure

      Q4. The Elastic Modulus is given by ______________.

      • Hooke’s Law
      • Poisson’s ratio
      • Ohm’s Law

      Q5. The yield strength corresponds to ______________.

      • an offset of 0.2%
      • an offset of 0.1%
      • the point of tangency where plastic deformation first begins

      Q6. The stress versus strain curve shows that a metal alloy becomes weaker beyond the tensile strength.

      • True
      • False

      Q8. The elastic “snap back” that occurs at failure is parallel to ______________.

      • the stress axis
      • the elastic deformation portion of the stress-strain curve.
      • the strain axis

      Q9. The Toughness or work-to-fracture is the total area under the stress versus strain curve.



       

      • True
      • False

      Quiz 01: Thing 5

      Q1. “Creep” deformation describes the behavior of materials being used at high temperatures under high pressures over _____________ time periods.

      • long
      • intermediate
      • short

      Q2. We added comments about polymers because their weak, secondary bonding between long chain molecules causes them to exhibit creep deformation at relatively low temperatures.

      • True
      • False

      Q3. In the simplest sense, the creep test is essentially a tensile test done at a high temperature under ____________ load.

      • a fixed
      • no
      • a variable

      Q4. A linear portion of the strain versus time plot corresponds to the ______________ stage of the overall creep curve.

      • secondary
      • tertiary
      • primary

      Q5. The strain rate in the ______________ stage of the creep test is analyzed using the Arrhenius equation, analogous to our previous discussion of the diffusion coefficient.

      • secondary
      • primary
      • tertiar

      Q6. A powerful use of the Arrhenius relationship is to measure creep data at low temperatures and then extrapolate the data to high temperatures, allowing us to predict the performance there.

      • True
      • False

      Q7. In a laboratory creep experiment at 1,000 °C, a steady-state creep rate of 5 x 10-1 % per hour is obtained for a metal alloy. The activation for creep in this system is known to be 200 kJ/mol. We can then predict that the creep rate at a service temperature of 600 °C will be ______________. (We can assume the stress on the sample in the laboratory experiment is the same as at the service temperature.)

      • 80.5 x 106 % per hour
      • 4.34 x 10-5 % per hour
      • 8.68 x 10-5 % per hour

      Q8. For high temperature creep deformation in ceramic materials, a common mechanism is ______________.

      • dislocation climb
      • viscous flow (molecules sliding past one another)
      • grain boundary sliding

      Quiz 02: Thing 6

      Q1. The ductile-to-brittle transition was first discovered in conjunction with the failure of ______________

      • the Queen Mary
      • the Titanic
      • Liberty Ships

      Q2. The impact energy is an indicator of whether a fracture is ductile or brittle, as measured by the ____________ test

      • creep
      • tensile
      • Charpy



      Q3. Although they have equally high atomic packing densities, face-centered cubic (fcc) metals with more slip systems are typically ductile while hexagonal close packed (hcp) metals are relatively __________.

      • strong
      • weak
      • brittle

      Q4. Body-centered cubic (bcc) alloys such as low-carbon steels demonstrate the ductile-to-brittle transition because their dislocation motion tends to be ___________ than that in the more densely packed fcc alloys.

      • more erratic
      • slower
      • faster

      Quiz 01: Thing 7

      Q1. We focus on “critical flaws” that ______________.

      • are larger than 1 mm in size
      • lead to catastrophic failure
      • are larger than 1 μm in size

      Q2. We use the example of __________________ to illustrate concern about a famous “critical flaw.

      • Liberty Ships
      • the Hindenburg
      • the Liberty Bell

      Q3. The design plot is composed of two intersecting segments: yield strength corresponding to general yielding and fracture toughness corresponding to ______________

      • fracture following multiple stress applications
      • high-temperature fracture
      • flaw-induced fracture

      Q4. The design plot shows stress as a function of time.

      • True
      • False

      Q5. The ______________ flaw size is defined within the design plot at the intersection between the general yielding segment and the flaw-induced fracture segment

      • critical
      • minimum
      • maximum

      Q6. The I in the subscript of the fracture toughness, KIc , refers to ______________ .

      • mode I (uniaxial tensile) loading
      • “i” for incremental loading
      • the primary stage of creep deformatio

      Q7. The stress versus strain curve for a sample with a critical pre-existing flaw looks like ______________.

      • a regular stress versus strain curve but with a lower value of Y.S.
      • a regular stress versus strain curve but with a higher value of Y.S.
      • that of a brittle cerami

      Q8. The benefit of failure by general yielding is that ______________.

      • the plastic deformation serves as an early warning
      • the structure does not deform permanently
      • the failure occurs quickly

      Q9. “Flaw-induced fracture” is also known as “catastrophic fast fracture.”

      • True
      • False



       

      Quiz 02: Thing 8

      Q1. The fatigue strength that is associated with catastrophic failure after a large number of stress cycles is ______________ the yield strength.

      • greater than
      • less than
      • about the same value as

      Q2. A metal alloy known to have good ductility is used in the manufacture of a spring in a garage door assembly. The spring breaks catastrophically in its first use, under a load known to correspond to about 2/3 of the alloy’s yield strength. This is a good example of fatigue failure.

      • True
      • False

      Q3. The fatigue curve is a plot of breaking stress versus ______________.

      • temperature
      • time
      • the number of stress cycles

      Q4. The “fatigue strength” is defined as the point where the fatigue curve reaches a value of roughly _____________ of the tensile strength.

      • 75%
      • 10%
      • one-fourth to one-half

      Q5. Fatigue is the result of a critical flaw built up ______________

      • prior to being put into service
      • instantly
      • after a large number of stress cycles

      Q6. The relationship of fatigue to the design plot (introduced in our discussion of fracture toughness) is that we grow the size of a flaw at a relatively low stress until the flaw size reaches the “flaw-induced fracture” segment of the design plot.

      • True
      • False

      Quiz 01: Thing 9

      Q1. We begin by focusing on making things slowly. Phase diagrams are maps that help us track microstructural development during the slow cooling of an alloy. The Sn-Bi phase diagram is an example of a ______________ diagram.

      • temperature versus time
      • eutectoid
      • eutectic

      Q2. The phases in a two-phase region of the phase diagram are determined by the adjacent, single phases on either side of that two-phase region

      • True
      • False

      Q3. In the important Fe – Fe3C (iron carbide) phase diagram, steel making is described by slow cooling through the ______________ reaction

      • eutectic
      • melting
      • eutectoid

      Q4. The “pasty” quality of lead solders in the lead-tin system can be attributed to ______________.

      • the nature of the two-phase liquid + α solid solution region
      • the nature of the two-phase α solid solution + β solid solution region
      • the fact that lead has a higher melting point than tin

      Q5. Heat treatment can be defined as the time-independent process of producing a desired microstructure.

      • True
      • False

      Q6. Previously (in Thing 2), we saw that diffusion increases as temperature increases. Instability ______________ as temperature decreases.

      • increases
      • decreases
      • stays about the same

      Q7. Because of the competition between instability and diffusion, the most rapid transformation will occur _______________.

      • at the transformation temperature
      • below the transformation temperature
      • above the transformation temperatur

      Q8. The “knee-shaped” curve of the TTT diagram for eutectoid steel is a good example of the competition between instability and ______________.

      • stability
      • diffusion
      • radioactivity

      Q9. As we monitor the TTT diagram for eutectoid steel through the diffusional transformation region, we see that the decreasing magnitude of diffusivity with decreasing temperature leads to ______________.

      • increasingly more coarse microstructures
      • increasingly finer microstructures
      • generally unchanged grain sizes

      Q10. As we continue to go to lower temperatures in the TTT diagram for eutectoid steel, the diffusionless transformation to form martensite is the result of ______________.

      • the domination of instability
      • increasingly rapid atomic mobility
      • freezing temperatures

      Quiz 02: Ten Things Final

      Q1. The first three categories introduced in the opening of the course (metals, polymers, and ceramics) are based on the three types of primary bonding: metallic, covalent, and ____________, respectively.

      • ionic
      • hydrogen
      • van der Waals

      Q2. In illustrating the relationship between atomic structure and the elastic modulus or stiffness of a metal (structure leads to properties!), we saw how elastic deformation follows from the stretching of atomic ___________.

      • bonds
      • weights
      • energy

      Q3. The _________ plot is a linear set of data points in which the logarithm of rate is plotted against the inverse of absolute temperature in K-1.

      • TTT
      • fatigue
      • Arrhenius

      Q4. In the face centered cubic structure of aluminum, solid-state diffusion occurs by individual aluminum atoms hopping into adjacent interstitial sites

      • True
      • False



      Q5. ___________________ is a linear defect with the Burgers vector perpendicular to the dislocation line.

      • An interstitial
      • A vacancy
      • An edge dislocation

      Q6. Consider the body of an automobile made of steel. A small dent in that structure when the automobile is accidentally driven into a barrier is an example of _________ deformation.

      • viscous
      • elastic
      • plastic

      Q7. In the tensile test, the yield strength (Y.S.) is found just beyond the linear elastic region (which gives the elastic modulus, E) at an offset of 0.2% strain.

      • True
      • False

      Q8. Beyond the tensile strength (T.S.), the maximum stress value measured over the range of the tensile test, we measure the ductility corresponding to the total amount of ______________ deformation.

      • elastic + plastic
      • elastic
      • plastic

      Q9. For high temperature creep deformation in metal alloys, a common mechanism that we illustrated is ______________.

      • dislocation climb
      • viscous flow (molecules sliding past one another)
      • grain boundary sliding

      Q10. A powerful use of the Arrhenius relationship is to measure creep data at high temperatures over conveniently short time periods and then extrapolate the data to __________ temperatures, allowing us to predict the performance of the material over long operating times.

      • even higher
      • cryogenic
      • low

      Q11. The impact energy is the standard property for monitoring the ductile-to-brittle transition. The impact energy is commonly measured by means of the ______________.

      • creep test
      • Charpy test
      • tensile tes

      Q12. Body-centered cubic (bcc) alloys tend to exhibit the ductile-to-brittle transition because they have fewer slip systems than in the ductile face-centered cubic (fcc) alloys.

      • True
      • False

      Q13. The design plot is composed of two intersecting segments: yield strength corresponding to ___________ and fracture toughness corresponding to flaw-induced fracture.

      • high-temperature fracture
      • general yielding
      • fracture following multiple stress applications

      Q14. The design plot monitors stress as a function of ______________.

      • flaw size, a.
      • strain
      • time

      Q15. A metal alloy known to have good ductility is used in the manufacture of a spring in a garage door assembly. The spring breaks catastrophically after 10 years of regular use, under a load known to correspond to about one half of the alloy’s yield strength. This is a good example of fatigue failure.

      • True
      • False

      Q16. The relationship of fatigue to the design plot (introduced in our discussion of fracture toughness) is that we grow the size of a flaw at a relatively low stress until the flaw size reaches the ______________ segment of the design plot.

      • yield stress
      • general yielding
      • flaw-induced fracture

      Q17. Phase diagrams are maps that help us track microstructural development during the slow cooling of an alloy. The Fe-Fe3C (iron carbide) phase diagram is an example of a ______________ diagram, with special relevance to steelmaking.

      • temperature versus time
      • eutectoid
      • eutectic

      Q18. Quenching a eutectoid steel below about 200 °C initiates the formation of martensite because the _______________ the austenite phase has become too great.

      • instability of
      • specific volume of
      • diffusion of carbon within

      Q19. Electronic conduction in an _____________ semiconductor is the result of the promotion of an electron from the valence band up to the conduction band across an energy band gap.

      • eccentric
      • extrinsic
      • intrinsic



      Q20. Combining the extrinsic behavior with the intrinsic on the Arrhenius plot produces a stable level of conductivity at ______________ temperatures.

      • intermediate
      • relatively low
      • relatively high

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