LYCEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES UNIVERSITY-CAVITE

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER STUDIES

AND ARCHITECTURE (COECSA)

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING

MEKN46E

FUNDAMENTALS OF MATERIALS SCIENCES & ENGINEERING

ASSIGNMENT MIDTERM

NEIL ANGELO MARTINEZ

ENG 301

ENGR. LEAH Q. SANTOS

INSTRUCTOR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

1. DESCRIBE ONE PROBLEM THAT MIGHT EXIST WITH A
STEEL WELD THAT WAS COOLED VERY RAPIDLY.

IF A STEEL WELD IS COOLED VERY RAPIDLY, MARTEN-SITE

MAY FORM, WHICH IS VERY BRITTLE. IN SOME
SITUATIONS, CRACKS MAY FORM IN THE WELD REGION AS
IT COOLS.

2. CITE ONE REASON WHY CERAMIC MATERIALS ARE IN

GENERAL, HARDER YET MORE BRITTLE THAN METALS.

THE BONDS ACROSS GRAIN BOUNDARIES IN THE CRYS-TAL

SPACE LATTICE OF DIFFERENT METALS VARIES, BUT THEY
CAN UNDERGO LARGE PLASTIC DEFORMATIONS WITHOUT
RUPTURE. THEY FORM STRONG FLEXIBLE BONDS, WHEREAS
NONMETALLIC CRYSTALS FORM STRONG BUT INFLEXIBLE
BONDS, MAKING THEM BRITTLE. IN EVERYTHING THERE IS
A "TRADE OFF", INCREASE HARDNESS AND LOSE
FLEXIBILITY AND TOUGHNESS, INCREASE TOUGHNESS
AND LOSE SOME DEGREE OF HARDNESS.
3. EXPLAIN BRIEFLY WHY THE TENDENCY OF POLYMER TO
CRYSTALLIZE DECREASES WITH INCREASING
MOLECULAR WEIGHT.

THE TENDENCY OF A POLYMER TO CRYSTALLIZE DE-

CREASES WITH INCREASING MOLECULAR WEIGHT BECAUSE
AS THE CHAINS BECOME LONGER IT IS MORE DIFFICULT
FOR ALL REGIONS ALONG ADJACENT CHAINS TO ALIGN SO
AS TO PRODUCE THE ORDERED ATOMIC ARRAY.

4. BRIEFLY DESCRIBE LAMINAR COMPOSITES. WHAT IS

THE PRIME REASON FOR FABRICATING THESE
MATERIALS?

LAMINAR COMPOSITES ARE A SERIES OF SHEETS OR

PANELS, EACH OF WHICH HAS A PREFERRED HIGH-
STRENGTH DIRECTION. THESE SHEETS ARE STACKED AND
THEN CEMENTED TOGETHER SUCH THAT THE
ORIENTATION OF THE HIGH-STRENGTH DIRECTION
VARIES FROMLAYER TO LAYER.
5. BRIEFLY EXPLAIN WHY COLD-WORKED METALS ARE
MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO CORROSION THAN NONCOLD-
WORKED METALS.

COLD-WORKED METALS ARE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO

CORROSION THAN NONCOLD-WORKED METALS BECAUSE OF
THE INCREASED DISLOCATION DENSITY FOR THE LATTER.
THE REGION IN THE VICINITY OF A DISLOCATION THAT
INTERSECTS THE SURFACE IS AT A HIGHER ENERGY STATE,
AND, THEREFORE, IS MORE READILY ATTACKED BY A
CORROSIVE SOLUTION.