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General Guidelines and Sample Labreport 2016
General Guidelines and Sample Labreport 2016
Overview
This is a general guideline for you to successfully write the lab report that needs to be submitted after
the laboratory session. Writing a good lab report is important since each lab accounts for 5% of final
overall marks for the module. A good report must document your findings and communicate them
clearly. In order to achieve this, the report is divided into several section where in each you will have to
state specific findings. You should be able to write the lab report in such a way that your comprehension
of the concepts gained from the observations and data are reflected through your writing. Just presenting
the data and observations is insufficient to achieve a good grade for your report. You should explain
how these experimental data are generated, if there are differences, why they occurred and how these
affected your experiment and principles the experiment is designed to explore. This format will help you
to achieve these but you need to understand that a good report is only produced through careful
organization of ideas and expressing them in a coherent manner.
You should have following topics in your report in the given order;
1. Title
2. Objectives
3. Introduction
4. Theory
5. Materials and apparatus
6. Procedure
7. Observations (attach the observation sheet)
8. Calculations
9. Results
10. Discussion
11. Conclusion
12. References
* Refer Annex 1 attached at the end of the document for more details in topic order, content of each
topic, marking guide, and page margins.
** Sample given below is only for reference purpose.
.Sample _ Start.
TITLE
Impact Toughness of Metallic Materials
OBJECTIVE
INTRODUCTION
Tensile testing is a destructive test process used to provide information about the strength and ductility
of a material or to meet acceptance test requirements. The tensile test, also known as a tension test,
involves applying an ever-increasing load to a test sample up to the point of failure. The process creates
a stress/strain curve showing how the material reacts throughout the tensile test. The data generated
during tensile testing is used to determine mechanical properties of materials and provides a quantitative
measurement of tensile strength, yield strength and ductility or stiffness. (Pytel, 2014)
Table 1: Fracture toughness of Materials (Pytel, 2014)
Material
Law carbon steel
Medium Carbon Steel
High carbon steel
REFERENCES
Hearn, E.J. (1998) Mechanics of Materials, London: B&H.
Pytel, A. (2014) Mechanical Properties of Materials, New York: McGraw Hill.
..Sample _ End.
General feedback
Corrective Action
Remove the unnecessary text without changing the
main structure of the cover page
Clearly, state the full number in the relevant box.
(i.e. UG2A)
Please do not include
Please stick to the format given.
Please include
Multi-colour figures
Annex 1
TITLE
Title as appear in the lab sheet
OBJECTIVE
State what is going to be investigated.
INTRODUCTION
Give a brief introduction for the practical.
THEORY
State the relevant theory behind the practical and state any equation related to the experiment.
PROCEDURE
Should be written in,
point form
OBSERVATIONS
Attach the observation sheet and graphs (if applicable). Graphs should be in one view in two pages.
Make use of the sample observation sheet in the courseweb.
CALCULATIONS
Show the calculations along with the assumptions etc.
RESULTS
Organize results into tables and graphs, where appropriate.
DISCUSSION
In this section discuss matters relating to all aspects of the experiment and how it relates to things beyond
the experiment, mainly focus your discussion to the topics mention in the lab sheet. Other than that the
following questions can be addressed, where appropriate
CONCLUSION
State the final conclusion of the experiment based on your observations.
REFERENCES
State at least 3 references. These could be books, journals, research papers or websites. Use Harvard
referencing style.