MATERIAL CHARACTERISATION OF POLYETHYLENE AND POLYSTYRENE PART 1 1. What date was the video taken? = 21/10/2010 2. What is the initial thickness of the callipers as first shown?= 6490mm 3. What is the time on the when last sample breaks ( ±5 s)? = 2.55 s Abstract Polystyrene is hard but brittle thermoplastic‚ less flexible and ductile at room temperature than Polyethylene because the phenyl group in its repeating unit increases the strength of intermolecular forces present in crystalline due
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Abstract A tensile test was conducted on an Instron tensile machine using a 3/16 inch copper rod. Using data acquired stress and strain was calculated and plotted on Excel to analyze stress strain curve. Modulus of elasticity‚ 0.2% yield stress‚ ultimate tensile stress and % elongation were also calculated. Introduction A tension test is probably the most fundamental type of mechanical test you can perform on material. Tensile tests are simple‚ relatively inexpensive‚ and fully standardized
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mechanical property of polymeric materials which was the tensile properties .The testing standard to adopt for the tensile testing was ASTM D638. Four different types of polymers were placed into the tensile testing machine. The different specimens would then be stretched till it breaks. The tensile testing machine would give the information on the force that was required to stretch the different specimens until it breaks. The average reading of Tensile modulus of all four specimens tested range from 500
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Part A: Tensile Strength DCHE/FT/1A/01 Group A Loh Jia Jun (1316717) 26 April 2013 MATERIALS IN PRACTICE (CP4088) (a) Synopsis The main objective of tensile testing is to determine
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TITLE : Tensile Test ABSTRACT The tensile test experiment being done purposely to determine the deformation of our specimen which is low carbon steel or also called as mild steel‚ and it also to identify the fracture characteristic of the specimen based on the result that we got through the experiment. Based on the data presence from this experiment ‚we used it to calculate the stress and strain using a theoretical formula. Through all the calculation that we got‚ we construct a table and
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Tensile Test Abstract The objective of this experiment is to test three specimens of different materials in a Tensile test machine and to calculate basic material characteristics such as tensile stress and Young’s Modulus. This report will explain in detail theory and procedures involved in such test and give all results obtained by group C2 on October 2013. Introduction Young’s Modulus‚ also known as Elastic Modulus is a material characteristic that represents stiffness and is defined as the
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Introduction Tensile test is also known as tension test. It is material’s strength test where pulling force is applied from two ends. It is very important mechanical property evaluation test which provides fundamental properties like strength‚ stiffness‚ elastic limit‚ ultimate tensile strength etc. in this test‚ test object are standard size and shape but different material‚ then direct comparison of properties of those materials can be made. We had used standard “dumb-bell” shaped
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Theory. Polyethylene Polyethyene is a type of polymer that is used in our daily life. Polyethylene(abbreviated PE) is a thermoplastic polymer‚ meaning that is can be melted to a liquid state and remolded as it returns to a solid state. PE is chemically synthesized from ethylene‚ a compound that is usually made from petroleum or natural gas[1]. The main mechanical properties of PE are the ultimate tensile strength and the modulus of elasticity. There are different types of Polyethylene‚ which
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element tensile test is conducted for element size of 5mm at strain rates mentioned in Fig. 7 7. The true stress versus plastic strain results of the simulation in comparison to the load curve is shown in Fig. 7 9. As the damage is coupled to the stress tensor by Eq. 4 1‚ there is a continuous reduction of stress. The plastic strain at failure for different strain rates is shown in Fig. 7 11 which is in accordance to the scaling factor given for different strain rates. One element tensile test is also
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Lab 2 Tensile Test Abstract The aim behind this experiment was to put Mild steel‚ copper and aluminium through a tensile test‚ with Mild steel being tabulated and graphed to show its properties and how they could be used in the real world. Introduction/Theory Tensile testing is one of the most simple and widely used materiel tests available. It is used to characterize the mechanical properties of the material and has direct implications on the design and construction of the end product. This test
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