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1. Impact testing is used to observe how materials behave under sudden loading and determine their energy absorption capacity. It can identify the ductile to brittle transition temperature of a material. 2. The Charpy and Izod impact tests differ in the orientation of the specimen - horizontal for Charpy and vertical for Izod. The Charpy test is preferred for metals while both can be used for plastics and metals. 3. Inspecting the fracture surface after impact testing can determine the percentage of shiny crystalline surface, indicating brittle cleavage failure, versus fibrous shear failure. This provides information about the material's fracture mechanics.

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Impact Test

1. Impact testing is used to observe how materials behave under sudden loading and determine their energy absorption capacity. It can identify the ductile to brittle transition temperature of a material. 2. The Charpy and Izod impact tests differ in the orientation of the specimen - horizontal for Charpy and vertical for Izod. The Charpy test is preferred for metals while both can be used for plastics and metals. 3. Inspecting the fracture surface after impact testing can determine the percentage of shiny crystalline surface, indicating brittle cleavage failure, versus fibrous shear failure. This provides information about the material's fracture mechanics.

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‫‪Impact Testing‬‬

‫مرحلئ ‪ :‬ثانية‬ ‫هندسة سيارات‬ ‫االسم ‪ :‬احمد عباس فاخر‬


ME 212 LABORATORY EXPERIMENT #4

IMPACT TESTING

1. INTRODUCTION:

A metal may be very hard (and therefore very strıng and yet be unsuitable for applications in
which it is subjected to sudden loads in service. Materials behave quite differently when they
are loaded suddenly than when they are loaded more slowly as in tensile testing. Because of
this fact, impact test is considered to be one of the basic mechanical tests (especially for
ferrous metals).

The term brittle fracture is used to describe rapid propagation of cracks without any excessive
plastic deformation at a stress level below the yield stress of the material. Metals that show
ductile behavior usually can, under certain circumstances, behave in a brittle fashion. The
stress needed to cause yield rises as the temperature falls. At very low temperatures, fracture
occurs before yielding.

Impact tests are used not also to measure the energy absorbing capacity of the
material subjected to sudden loading; but also to determine the transition temperature
from ductile to brittle behavior.

2. THEORY:

Pendulum Impact Test:

In this test the specimen is positioned across the lowest point in the path of a striker mounted
at the end of a pendulum as shown in Figure 1. The striker, having been initially lifted to a
specific height h1, and then released, swings against the specimen and breaks it. The striker
continues its swing to the other side of the specimen to a height h2. Clearly the difference
between the two heights multiplied by the weight of the striker corresponds to the amount of
energy that is absorbed in fracture.

WEIGHT

HOLDER

Figure 1. Schematic of a conventional Pendulum Impact Tester

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Izod Impact Test:

In the Izod impact test, the test piece is a cantilever, clamped upright in an anvil, with a V-
notch at the level of the top of the clamp. The test piece is hit by a striker carried on a
pendulum which is allowed to fall freely from a fixed height, to give a blow of 120 ft lb
energy. After fracturing the test piece, the height to which the pendulum rises is recorded by
a slave friction pointer mounted on the dial, from which the absorbed energy amount is read.

Figure 2. Basic Principle of Izod Impact Test

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Charpy Impact Test:

The principle of the test differs from that of the Izod test in that the test piece is tested as a
beam supported at each end; a notch is cut across the middle of one face, and the striker
hits the opposite face directly behind the notch.

When the results of a number of tests performed in different temperatures are plotted,
ductile-to-brittle transition curves, as in Fig. 3, may be obtained. As the temperature is
reduced through the transition range, the fracture surface changes from one having a 'fibrous'
or 'silky' appearance with much distortion at the sides, to one of completely crystalline
appearance with negligible distortion. There is a strong correlation between the energy
absorbed and the proportion of the cross-section which suffers deformation in fracture, and the
fracture surface is frequently described in terms of the percentage of its area which is
crystalline in appearance. Typical fracture appearances with crystallinity increases as the
temperature is reduced.

Figure 3: Schematic Presentation of the Ductile-to-Brittle Transition Curve.

3. TASKS:

1. What are the uses of the impact test?

An impact test is used to observe the mechanics that a material will


exhibit when it experiences a shock loading that causes the specimen to
immediately deform , fracture or rupture completely . To perform this
test the sample is placed into a holding fixture with the geometry and
orientation determined by the type of test that is used and then a
known weight generally but not always in the shape of a pendulum sed
from a known height so that it collides with the specimen with a sudden
force . This collision between the weight and specimen generally results
in the destruction of the specimen but the transfer of energy between
the two is used to determine the fracture mechanics of the material.

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2. What is the diffrence between Charpy and Izod Impact tests? Which one is preferred in
which case?

Materials Tested : • By the Izod Test. both plastics and metals can be
tested for their impact resistance . But the Charpy Test is useful in
testing the impact resistance of metals only.
Position of Test Material / Specimen : - The test material ( specimen ) is
placed in a vertical position while testing the impact resistance of
material via the Izod Impact Test . And , in the Charpy Impact Test , the
specimen is horizontally positioned.

3. What is the use of the inspection of the fracture surface to determine the percentage of the
shiny surface?

Visual inspection of the impacted specimen's fracture surface also


provides useful information . The surface may be fibrous ( indicating
microscopic shear or rupture ) or shiny and crystalline " ( giving
evidence of microscopic cleavage ) . Or , for those materials that
undergo a change in fracture mode with temperature , the surface may
be part fibrous and part cleavage . The cleavage portion is found in the
central section of the specimen and is surrounded on its periphery by a
region of fibrous ( or shear lip ) failure , with the percentage of fibrous
fracture increasing with temperature

4. The gauge of the Impact Testing Apparatus shows 52 divisions. Calculate the amount of
energy adsorbed per unit surface prior to fracture. Remeber that 1 division corresponds to 2
Joules and the fracture surface is 8 mm x 10 mm, not 10 mm x 10 mm.

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