THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
NG TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICALICAL ENGINEERING
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY HONOURS IN ENGINEERING – LEVEL 03
DMX3203 – INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING MATERIALS
ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020
ASSIGNMENT 01

INSTRUCTIONS:
(1) This assignment is based on BBook 01
(2) Answer all questions.
(3) Write your registration number clearly on your answer script.
(4) Send your answer scripts under registered cover to the address given below or deposit them in
the assignment box available at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Research Lab in
new SNT building), Nawala.
THE COURSE CO-ORDINATOR
ORDINATOR IN DMX3
DMX3203.
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA
P.O.BOX 21, NAWALA, NUGEGODA.
(5) Last date of submission is 10th November 2019.
(6) No late submissions will be accepted.

Course Information

 The model answers to assignments will be uploaded to the web within two weeks after the
submission date.

 No late assignment submissions will be accepted under any circumstances

circumstances.

 Please follow the activity diary and it contain all information’s regardi
regarding the Introduction to
Engineering Materials course (pages 137 - 138)

Academic Coordinator : I.P.T.S. Wickramasooriya

Telephone : 0728797939
Email : ipwic@ou.ac.lk

Recommended Textbooks:

1. Materials Science and Engineeering an Introduction: William D. Callister, Jr. and David G.
Rethwisch

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Question 01

(a) List three items made from ceramics. For each item, note the specific ceramic used and at least
one characteristic that makes it the material of choice.

(b) Give brief comment on synthetic polymers giving 5 examples.

(c) List four different types of polymers with their specific characteristics and one application.

(d) What are Nano Materials, discuss briefly.

Question 02

(a) Briefly explain Hund's Rule.

(b) List the three types of Primary bonds and briefly explain one of them.

(c) Briefly discuss the relationship between type of bonds and properties of engineering materials.

(d) What are the different types of microscopes used for metallurgical observations and state the
things that you can observe under a microscope.

Question 03

(a)State Fick’s First and Second laws of diffusion.

(b)Determine the carburizing time (in s) necessary to achieve a carbon concentration of 0.44 wt%
at a position 1.9 mm into an iron-carbon alloy that initially contains 0.031 wt% C. The surface
concentration is to be maintained at 1.2 wt% C, and the treatment is to be conducted at 1020°C.
Assume that D0 = 5.1 x 10-5 m2/s and Qd =154 kJ/mol.

Error function Table is given below.

z erf(z) z erf(z)
0 0 0.55 0.5633
0.025 0.0282 0.60 0.6039
0.05 0.0564 0.65 0.6420
0.10 0.1125 0.70 0.6778
0.15 0.1680 0.75 0.7112
0.20 0.2227 0.80 0.7421
0.25 0.2763 0.85 0.7707
0.30 0.3286 0.90 0.7970
0.35 0.3794 0.95 0.8209
0.40 0.4284
0.45 0.4755
0.50 0.5205
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Question 04

(a)A hypothetical metal has an orthorhombic unit cell for which the a, b, and c lattice
parameters are 0.413 nm, 0.665 nm, and 0.876 nm, respectively. If there are 8 atoms per unit
cell and the atomic packing factor is 0.536, determine the atomic radius (in nm).

(b)Draw the following crystallographic planes and the directions in a cubic unit cell.

Plane :(i) (3 0 3) (ii) (2 3 0) (iii) (2 1 3 )

Direction:(i)[3 2 0] (ii) [2 3 0 ] (iii) [2 1 3]

(c)Consider a 0.05 mm thick, 500 mm2 piece of Aluminium foil. How many unit cells exist in the
foil? If the density of Aluminium is 2.7 g/cm3, what is the mass of each cell? Lattice constant
‘a’ for Aluminium is 0.405nm.

(d)Identify the miller indices of the planes A & Bin Fig. (i) and the directions A,B,C,D in Fig. (ii)
shown below.

Fig. (i) Fig. (ii)

(e)Tungsten has a Body Centered Cubic (BCC) structure and an atomic radius of 0.137nm.
Calculate the planer density of Tungsten in the (111) plane.

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