Student ID Number:
Test
Semester 2 2024
PAPER NAME: Engineering Materials II
PAPER CODE: ENME700
DATE: 19 August 2024
TIME ALLOWED: 60 minutes (5 mins reading time)
TOTAL MARKS: 20
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Answer questions 1 and 2, and answer either question 3 or 4 (not both).
2. Ensure that your student ID number is clearly written on the top of each page of
the answer sheets.
3. Do not start writing until you are instructed.
4. Correcting fluid is not permitted.
5. Non-programmable calculators are permitted, all other devices are not allowed.
6. Students should show all working in their calculations.
7. The following are allowed to be used: W.D. Callister Jr, and D.G. Rethwisch,
Materials Science and Engineering - An Introduction, lecture notes, and one A4 size
paper that you can write anything on.
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
STANDARD materials allowed on desks during a test are pens, pencils, erasers, ID card, single
tissues, and a clear bottle of water/juice.
While pencils are allowed in the test room, AUT Exam Guidelines state students must ultimately
submit their answers in ink, not pencil.
TEST SUMMARY:
Section Marks Suggested time (Minutes)
Question 1 8 24
Question 2 8 24
Question 3 or question 4 4 12
Total 20 60
ENME700 S2 2024 Student ID Number:
1. (a) Compute the planar density of niobium (Nb, BCC, atomic radius 0.143nm) for its
(110) plane.
(b) Chromium has a BCC crystal structure, an atomic radius of 0.125 nm and an
atomic weight of 52.0 g/mol. Compute its theoretical density.
(c) Calculate the number of vacancies per cubic meter in iron at 850C. The energy
for vacancy formation is 1.08 eV/atom-K. The density and atomic weight for Fe
are 7.65 g/cm3 and 55.85 g/mol, respectively..
[2+2+3 marks]
2. X-ray diffraction of powdered bcc-(FeMnAlSi), which has a BCC structure, is
conducted using monochromatized CuK1 radiation ( = 0.154056 nm).
(a) The angle (2) of diffraction for the {310} set of planes occurs at 22.32 (first-
order reflection). Compute the latter parameter for the unit cell of the structure.
(b) An angle of diffraction occurs at 24.48 , determine the set of planes.
(c) Draw (310) and the one determined in (b) in a unit cell.
[3+3+2 marks]
Either
3. Compute the number of kilograms of hydrogen that pass per hour through a 5-mm-thick
sheet of palladium having an area of 0.20 m2 at 500C. Assume a diffusion coefficient
of 1.0×10-8 m2/s, that the concentrations at the high- and low-pressure sides of the plate
are 2.4 and 0.6 kg of hydrogen per cubic meter of palladium, and that steady-state
conditions have been attained.
[4 marks]
or
4. A structural component is fabricated from an alloy that has a plane strain fracture
toughness of 45 MPa m1/2. It has been determined that this component fails at a stress
of 300 MPa when the maximum length of a surface crack is 0.95 mm. What is the
maximum allowable surface crack length (in mm) without fracture for this same
component exposed to a stress of 300 MPa and made from another alloy with a plane-
strain fracture toughness of 57.5MPa m1/2?
[4 marks]
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