Material Testing

Stress-Strain Diagrams
Stress-Strain Diagrams

Introduction to engineering stress-strain diagrams for metals. Made by faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

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Engineering Stress and Strain
Engineering Stress and Strain

Demonstrates how to calculate engineering stress and strain.

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Tensile Test
Tensile Test

Basic principle and practical procedure of the tensile test on ductile metallic materials

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Tensile Test Definitions
Tensile Test Definitions

This video defines various concepts related to the tensile test in detail.

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Rockwell Hardness Test
Rockwell Hardness Test

Basic principle and practical procedure of the Rockwell hardness test

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Vickers Hardness Test
Vickers Hardness Test

Basic principle and practical procedure of the Vickers hardness test

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Charpy Impact Test
Charpy Impact Test

Basic principle and practical procedure of the Charpy impact test

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Rockwell Hardness Testers Video
Rockwell Hardness Testers Video

This video will show you how to use the Rockwell hardness tester with both the B and C scales.

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Brinell Hardness Test
Brinell Hardness Test

Basic principle and practical procedure of the Brinell hardness test

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How to plot Stress vs Strain
How to plot Stress vs Strain

A walkthrough of plotting a stress-strain curve.

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Stress-Strain Curve for Steel and Resulting Points of Interest
Stress-Strain Curve for Steel and Resulting Points of Interest

Uses a spreadsheet to organize data, make it physically meaningful, and plot it as Engineering Stress vs. Engineering Strain. Other calculations and points of interest are highlighted, including the Modulus of Elasticity, Yield Strength, Tensile Strength

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Basic Mechanics of Materials Overview (Unit 7)
Basic Mechanics of Materials Overview (Unit 7)

Materials Science lecture regarding Mechanical Properties of Materials. Covers many properties and phenomena, including stress, strain, elasticity, and plastic deformation. Applications include polymers, metals, ceramics, and testing techniques.

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Heat Treatment of Aluminum
Heat Treatment of Aluminum

Heat Treatment of Aluminum

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Elements of Tempering, Normalizing, and Annealing
Elements of Tempering, Normalizing, and Annealing

Explains how steel is tempered, how the structure, toughness, and hardness of plain carbon steel changes at progressive tempering stages, and how steel is normalized and annealed. Describes the results.

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Heat Treating
Heat Treating

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The Drama Of Steel - 1946 Educational Documentary
The Drama Of Steel - 1946 Educational Documentary

This educational documentary was produced by the Inland Steel Company and United State Bureau of Mines in 1946. It starts with the history of the steelmaking process, explaining the operation of the blast furnace and the open hearth furnace. It goes on t

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STEEL: From Start to Finish
STEEL: From Start to Finish

A narrated description of the steelmaking process.

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Steelmaking
Steelmaking

the making of steel

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Making Steel
Making Steel

(Please note that copyrights of certain materials are not owned by the Steel Plant Museum of Western New York. The museum does reserve the right to upload content based on fair use for educational purposes. Archival footages seen on this page are propert

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Steel Heat Treatment: "Elements of Tempering, Normalizing, and Annealing"
Steel Heat Treatment:

"Explains how steel is tempered, how the structure, toughness, and hardness of plain carbon steel changes at progressive tempering stages, and how steel is normalized and annealed. Describes the results."

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The Space Elevator - no longer Science Fiction
The Space Elevator - no longer Science Fiction

The science behind the space elevator fiction. For more facts refer to EuSEC 2011 - European Space Elevator Challenge

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Nova: Carbon Nanotubes
Nova: Carbon Nanotubes

Video from Nova s38e09 showing impressive production of long carbon nanotube strands.

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