Strength of Materials Lab Manual

Strength of Materials Laboratory Manual is an exercise book for the Strength of Materials Laboratory course. It contains 13 exercises that are part of the course. LIST OF EXPERIMENTS 1. Tension test on a mild steel rod 2. Double shear test on Mild steel and Aluminium rods 3. Torsion test on mild steel rod 4. Impact test on metal specimen 5. Hardness test on metals - Brinnell and Rockwell Hardness Number 6. Deflection test on beams 7. Compression test on helical springs 8. Strain Measurement using Rosette strain gauge 9. Effect of hardening- Improvement in hardness and impact resistance of steels. 10. Tempering- Improvement Mechanical properties Comparison (i) Unhardened specimen (ii) Quenched Specimen and (iii) Quenched and tempered specimen. 11. Microscopic Examination of (i) Hardened samples and (ii) Hardened and tempered samples.