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Charpy Impact Test Report

Table of Contents
Statement of Intent…………………………………………………………………………………..3
Background……………………………………………………………………………………………….3
Equipment…………………………………………………………………………………………………5
Procedure………………………………………………………………………………………………….6
Data and Analysis………………………………………………………………………………………7
Conclusions……………………………………………………………………………………………….11
Works Cited………………………………………………………………………………………………12

Statement of Intent The purpose of the experiment was to run a Charpy Impact Test and compare the energy absorbed between 4130 steel and A36 hot rolled steel and find the ductile to brittle transition for each.
Background
The Charpy test works by suspending a notched specimen at both ends and then breaking the specimen by …show more content…

The DTBT starts to occur at -12°F and it ends at around 200°F with it tapering off after that. The graph of the data is Figure 3. As shown, this graph does not look like a typical DTBT graph. There are outliers at points 4, 5, 7, 10, 15, 19, and 20. With the data collected, the transition temperature starts at -12°F with 69.5ft-lb of energy absorbed, but the standard is different. The standard transition temperature is -100°F with 15ft-lb of energy absorbed.(Brockenbrough 1.20-1.21) As shown in Figure 4, these are the samples lined up from coldest to warmest. You can see the DTBT. It starts at sample 5 and ends at sample 9.

Figure 3

Figure 4
B. 4130 Steel
Temp
Energy Absorbed
Temp
Energy Absorbed
°F
ft - lb
°F
ft - lb
-330
6
76
25.5
-266
3.5
115.9
27
-262
9
130
26
-197
11
164.6
37
-136
15
180
47
-127.8
12.5
200
41
-90
18
202.6
42
-70
21
225
46
-50
6
253.2
27
26
26
274
51
69.5
27.5
293.8
59

The material was very brittle at extremely low temperature, but the energy absorbed was higher than the A36 steel. The DTBT starts to occur at -90°F and it ends at around 200°F with it

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