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Civil Engineering Materials Week 1
Week 1 Quiz
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Civil Engineering
Undergraduate 1
01/13/2015

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What are the basics of atomi structure , what is the atomic number , mass number and atomic weight?
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What does avogadro's number represent and it's value?
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The basics of electron arrangement and orbs aroudn the atom nuceleus
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What are valence electrons and why are they important?
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What are the four types of bonding? How do they form and what properties do they give
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What are the three basic categories of materials , predominant bonding for each and examples of each
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ceramic , metal and polyers
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Pressure-temp equilibrium diagram for water and how it works in ice skating
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Fundamentals of elastic and plastic deformation in metal. What happens when unloaded?
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What is strain hardening? What is the effect on a metals strength and ductility?
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What's the difference between failure in brittle , semi ductile and ductile tension failre
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How to calculate tensile strength , compression strength , elongation strain , lateral strain , poisson's ration , initial elastic modulus , secant modulus and tangment modulus
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What is the difference between nominal stress and true stress? Which is usually used and why?
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What are the four different cases of rate of load application on a material and giving an example of each
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How do materials fail under compression loads and how is tension involved?
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What conditions cause material to creep and why do materials experience creep
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After a material has suffered creep , what ours when the load is removed and what is it called?
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Know the magnitude of loading that will ultimate cause failure due to excessive creep
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Know the names and strain behavior in each sub-division of creep deformation
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What is stress relaxation and how does it affect structures?
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How will materials react to cyclic loader . What materials have a lower safe limit of stress?
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How does rapid impact loading effect metal strength , stiffness andductility
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What is the mean of a series of numbers and how to calculate it
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What is the standard deviation and how it varies between steel and concrete
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Why is standard deviation important in determining the design allowable strength of a material?
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