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Lab Sheet Tensile Test Steel Bar

This document provides instructions for conducting tensile tests on steel reinforcing bars to compare their mechanical properties. Students will perform tensile tests on a plain mild steel bar and a high-tensile ribbed bar using a universal testing machine. They will record load and extension data and use it to plot load-displacement and stress-strain graphs. In their report, students must analyze the behavior of the bars under tensile loading, produce labeled stress-strain charts, examine Young's modulus values, and describe the fractures in the bars. The goal is to observe and compare the mechanical properties of different steel reinforcing bars.

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Lab Sheet Tensile Test Steel Bar

This document provides instructions for conducting tensile tests on steel reinforcing bars to compare their mechanical properties. Students will perform tensile tests on a plain mild steel bar and a high-tensile ribbed bar using a universal testing machine. They will record load and extension data and use it to plot load-displacement and stress-strain graphs. In their report, students must analyze the behavior of the bars under tensile loading, produce labeled stress-strain charts, examine Young's modulus values, and describe the fractures in the bars. The goal is to observe and compare the mechanical properties of different steel reinforcing bars.

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RAK Academic Centre

Materials Lab Sheet

TENSILE TESTING ON STEEL REINFORCING BAR

Aims
To observe simple tensile tests on steel reinforcing bars and compare their mechanical
and physical properties through the use of Load – Extension data.

Objectives
To describe tensile test, record results, analyse findings and form conclusions

Health & Safety

The Denison Universal Testing Machine will be operated by an experienced


technician. However,
 Wear gloves, safety shoes and protective glasses.
 Beware not to drop steel bars on toes.
 Stand a suitable distance away from the equipment during testing.
 Be careful of sharp serrated edges of fractured samples.

Apparatus and Specimens


 Avery Denison Universal Testing Machine.
 Micrometer
 One mild steel plain bar.
 One high tensile ribbed bar.

Please turn the page

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EXPERIMENT: TENSILE TESTING ON STEEL REINFORCING BARS

Plain Bar

1. Measure the diameter with the micrometer provided. Take two


measurements of diameter (at 900 to each other), at four points along the
length of the bar. Why?

2. Calculate the average cross sectional area (CSA) of the bar and inform the
technician of the value for input into the Test Program.

3. Measure the overall length of the bar and weigh it. Calculate the average
cross-sectional area based on the density for steel being 7850 kg/m 3.
Compare the results with 2 above.

Ribbed Bar

Measure the overall length of the ribbed bar and record its weight. Again assuming
the density of steel to be 7850 kg /m3, calculate the CSA of the bar.

Tensile Tests

Secure the samples (in turn), into the jaws of the Denison Universal Testing Machine
and load each bar (in tension), to fracture.
The load and corresponding extension readings of each tensile test will be provided.
You are required to plot the Load vs Displacement graph and the Stress vs Strain
graph using the given readings. Fully label the curves and highlight the important
points and values for each curve.

Useful Formulae

Density = Mass / Volume

Stress = Load / CSA

Strain = Changer in Length / Specimen Gauge Length

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Young’s Modulus of Elasticity = Stress / Strain

TABLE FOR RESULTS

Plain Bar
Diameter:…………….

Position Diameter Diameter Avg. Diameter


Position 1
Position 2
Position 3
Position 4
Average Diameter

Average Cross-sectional Area

Overall Length of Specimen

Gauge Length of Specimen

Weight of Specimen

Average Cross-sectional Area based on density

Ribbed Bar
Diameter

Position Diameter Diameter Avg. Diameter


Position 1
Position 2
Position 3
Position 4
Average Diameter

Average Cross-sectional Area

Overall Length of Specimen

Gauge Length of Specimen

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Weight of Specimen

Average Cross-sectional Area based on density


Submission: Individual Laboratory Report

Use the data you collected during the laboratory tests and research the topic using
standards, textbooks and information from manufacturers to produce a word-
processed report on the tensile performance of different types of steel reinforcing
bars. The report must be an individual piece of work and should include all the
general requirements as stated in the Assignment Brief.
Apart from the general brief requirements, in your Analysis and Discussion you
should include the following details specific to tensile steel testing:
:
 Explain the behaviour of the samples under the tensile load up to and
including the point of fracture.
 Produce a full stress-strain chart for each specimen. Fully label the curves
and highlight the important points and values for each curve. Explain the
significance of these points.
 Examine the average value of Young’s Modulus of Elasticity (E) (from three
different points) obtained from the experiment against the value that might be
expected for each sample.
 Sketch and classify the fracture of both samples.

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