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Analysis of Tensile Test Data Using MS Excel

The document provides instructions for analyzing tensile test data using spreadsheet software to calculate engineering stress, engineering strain, true stress, and true strain from the original load and extension data. It describes how to calculate cross-sectional area, nominal stress by dividing load by area, nominal strain by dividing extension by gauge length, engineering strain using natural logarithms, and true stress and strain. It also provides steps for plotting the data, fitting trend lines to determine Young's modulus, and calculating the 0.2% proof stress.

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Analysis of Tensile Test Data Using MS Excel

The document provides instructions for analyzing tensile test data using spreadsheet software to calculate engineering stress, engineering strain, true stress, and true strain from the original load and extension data. It describes how to calculate cross-sectional area, nominal stress by dividing load by area, nominal strain by dividing extension by gauge length, engineering strain using natural logarithms, and true stress and strain. It also provides steps for plotting the data, fitting trend lines to determine Young's modulus, and calculating the 0.2% proof stress.

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Analysis of Tensile test data

using MS Excel/ Libre Office /


Origin
The data file that shall be provided to you shall have the following columns load in N and extension in mm

The dia of the gauge section is 5 mm

So the C/S area is = 19.6375

To obtain the nominal stress we need to divide the Load by


the C/S Area

To obtain the nominal Strain we need to divide the extension


by the gauge length

Gauge length Lo = 25 mm
Calculate the area
Create a column titled Area
Put the value in the First row of that column and double click on the green dot in the red circle to
copy the area value in the entire column
Similarly put the value of the gauge
length
Calculate nominal Strain by dividing Extension by gauge
length

Double click on the green dot similarly to continuously


determine the nominal strain.
Similarly Calculate the nominal Stress by dividing Load by
C/S Area

Double click on the green dot similarly to continuously


determine the nominal stress
Calculate the engineering strain by using the formula

E_true = ln( 1 + E_nominal)

Double click on the green dot similarly to continuously


determine the nominal stress
Calculate the engineering strain by using the formula

S_true = S_nominal*( 1 + E_nominal)

Double click on the green dot similarly to continuously


determine the nominal stress
To plot go to insert and go to scatter plot 1st one
Go to select data and select the X and Y
Select the X range and Y range from the excel sheet separately for engineering stress and engineering strain (Same
as nominal)

And for true stress and true strain


Similarly plot the true stress and true strain plot
Perfectly label the axis and put the legends
Very Very Important
Double click on the chat and go to add chat elements to do all of it
To determine the Young’s modulus select a linear region and fit an equation to it
Select the range and plot a straight line
between them
Fit an equation for the line and select intercept as
zero

Click on the graph and select fit trend line

Select Linear

Use intercept as Zero . This neednot be done


always. Just fit a straight line and get the slope

and selct display eqn


For the 0.2 % Proof stress determination we need
to plot a line parallel to the line in the previous slid
but all the x data have to shifted to the right by a
value of 0.002
One trick of doing it is here

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