Mechanical Testing Direction
Mechanical Testing Direction
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Hi All
I am after peoples opinions regarding mechanical testing of metals, specifically with respect to "Transverse" direction. Obvioulsy this means accross the primary grain flow, but my question is, in longitudinally forged bar, both Tangential and Radial directions are across the grain flow, and can exhibit different characteristics. In the absence of any identified directions, ie C-R or R-L etc within a specification, which direction do most people assume to be the correct "Transverse"
Thanks in advance for any valuable input.
I am after peoples opinions regarding mechanical testing of metals, specifically with respect to "Transverse" direction. Obvioulsy this means accross the primary grain flow, but my question is, in longitudinally forged bar, both Tangential and Radial directions are across the grain flow, and can exhibit different characteristics. In the absence of any identified directions, ie C-R or R-L etc within a specification, which direction do most people assume to be the correct "Transverse"
Thanks in advance for any valuable input.





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You mention forging - in cold rolled steels, there is a strong texture in the steel and anisotropic properties and directionality is important. Our customers used to deep draw cans from the stock and it was something we had to consider as plant metallurgists.
Whilst the standard would specify a direction to allow for grain flow in forgings to allow for an inclusion or a stringer, hot forging produces equiaxed grains in modern steel with the current trend towards producing clean steel with little impurity. I used to work with cold worked steel strip, never had to worry about hot rolled properties other than "was it correct and uniform thickness into the mill and thoroughly clean".
I thought that the only source of anisotropy would be stringers/inclusions or pearlite banding in a modern forging, but I was wrong. The dog ears on the ends of the slab when rolled indicate the texture in hot rolling. I googled the paper below that may give you another test direction.
http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/phase-trans/2012/X80_2.pd...
End of the day, however, I'd be using the correct standards - are they the ASTM ones linked above?
RE: Mechanical Testing Direction
RE: Mechanical Testing Direction