Assignment Questions Set 3 (Module 3)

1. Compare hot working, cold working and warm working.

2. Tin, lead and zinc can be hot worked at room temperature. Justify the statement.
3. Sketch the variation of hardness, yield strength and ductility during recovery,
recrystallisation and grain growth. Indicate the changes in grain size/structure
during the processes.
4. Compare elastic, anelastic, viscoelastic and plastic behaviour of materials with the
help of stress-strain and strain-time graphs.
5. What are the various mechanisms of plastic deformation in metals? Name at least
three materials undergoing plastic deformation by each mechanism.
6. Compare slip and twinning with suitable sketches.
7. What is meant by slip system? Which are the prominent slip systems in BCC,
FCC and HCP?
8. Though BCC and FCC have equal (12) number of slip systems, BCC metals do
not show as good ductility as FCC metals. Why?
9. Derive and expression for resolved shear stress in a single crystal. What is meant
by Critical resolved shear stress?
10. Compare the crystal structure, slip system, CRSS value and mechanical properties
of the following metals: Cu, Ag, Au, Al, Ni, Zn, Cd, Mg, Ti, Fe, Mo, W.
11. Explain the phenomenon of strain hardening. Sketch the flow curve. Give the
relation connecting stress, strength coefficient and strain hardening exponent.
12. Explain briefly various strengthening mechanisms.
13. What is Hall-Petch relation. Explain its significance.
14. Explain how a TTT diagram is constructed.
15. What is meant by hardenability? How is it measured?
16. What is the relevance of the following in heat treatment processes: (i) Fe-C
diagram (ii) TTT diagram.
17. Compare the following with regard to the objectives, temperature and cooling rate:
(i) annealing (ii) hardening (iii) tempering (iv) normalising
18. Distinguish between (i) tempering and austempering (ii) hardening and
martempering
19. Explain any three case-hardening techniques.
20. Explain briefly (i) hard-facing, (ii) cladding (iii) anodising