Vocabulary

Part 2

Exercise 4.Look at these examples and translate

A man can easily lift a large roll of glass wool but not a concrete beam.

Glass wool is light but concrete is heavy.

A man can bend a rubber tile but not a concrete tile.

Rubber is flexible but concrete is rigid.

Wood can burn but concrete cannot burn.

Wood is combustible but concrete is non-combustible.

Water vapour can pass through stone but not through bitumen.

Stone is permeable but bitumen is impermeable.

You can see through glass but not through wood.

Glass is transparent but wood is opaque.

Stainless steel can resist corrosion but mild steel cannot.

Stainless steel is corrosion resistant but mild steel is not corrosion resistant.

Heat can be easily transferred through copper but not through wood.

Copper is a good conductor of heat but wood is a poor conductor of heat.

Rubber can be stretched or compressed and will then return to its original shape but clay cannot.

Rubber is elastic but clay is plastic.

Bitumen can be dented or scratched easily but glass cannot.

Bitumen is soft but glass is hard.

Now complete these sentences with properties:

a) The polythene membrane can prevent moisture from rising into the concrete floor. This means that polythene is____.

b) The T-shaped aluminium section can resist chemical action, i.e. aluminium is......

c) The stone block cannot be lifted without using a crane. This means that stone is.____.

d) The corrugated iron roof cannot prevent the sun from heating up the house, i.e. iron is......

e) Glass wool can help to keep a house warm in the winter and cool in the summer, i.e. glass wool is......

f) The ceramic tiles on the floor cannot be scratched easily by people walking on them. This means that ceramic tiles are _ _.

g) Asbestos sheeting can be used to fireproof doors. In other words asbestos is_____.

h) Black cloth blinds can be used to keep the light out of a room, i.e. cloth is_____.

«Mechanical Properties of Materials»

Density(specific weight) is the amount of mass in a unit volume. It is measured in kilograms per cubic metre. The density of water is 1000 kg/ m³ but most materials have a higher density and sink in water. Aluminium alloys, with typical densities around 2800 kg/ m³ are considerably less dense than steels, which have typical densities around 7800 kg/ m³. Density is important in any application where the material must not be heavy.

Stiffness(rigidity) is a measure of the resistance to deformation such as stretching or bending. The Young modulus is a measure of the resistance to simple stretching or compression. It is the ratio of the applied force per unit area (stress) to the fractional elastic deformation (strain). Stiffness is important when a rigid structure is to be made.

Strength is the force per unit area (stress) that a ma­terial can support without failing. The units are the same as those of stiffness, MN/m², but in this case the deformation is irreversible. The yield strength is the stress at which a material first deforms plastically. For a metal the yield strength may be less than the fracture strength, which is the stress at which it breaks. Many materials have a higher strength in compression than in tension;

Ductility is the ability of a material to deform without breaking. One of the great advantages of metals is their ability to be formed into the shape that is needed, such as car body parts. Materials that are not ductile are brittle. Ductile materials can absorb energy by deformation but brittle materials cannot.

Toughness is the resistance of a material to breaking when there is a crack in it. For a material of given toughness, the stress at which it will fail is inversely proportional to the square root of the size of the largest defect present. Toughness is different from strength: the toughest steels, for example, are different from the ones with highest tensile strength. Brittle materials have low toughness: glass can be broken along a chosen line by first scratching it with a diamond. Composites can be designed to have considerably greater toughness than their constituent materials. The example of a very tough composite is fiberglass that is very flexible and strong.

Creep resistance is the resistance to a gradual permanent change of shape, and it becomes especially important at higher temperatures. A successful research has been made in materials for machine parts that operate at high temperatures and under high tensile forces without gradually extending, for example the parts of plane engines.

ability — способность

amount — количество

absorb— поглощать

amount — количество

application — применение

brittle — хрупкий, ломкий

car body — кузов автомобиля

constituent — компонент

crack — трещина

creep resistance — устойчивость к ползучести

definition —определение

density — плотность

ductility — ковкость, эластичность

failure — повреждение

gradual — постепенный

permanent — постоянный

rigid— жесткий

to sink — тонуть

square root — квадратный корень

stiffness — жесткость

strain — нагрузка, напряжение, деформация

strength — прочность

stress — давление, напряжение

tensile strength — прочность на разрыв

toughness — прочность, стойкость

yield strength — прочность текучести

Young modulus — модуль Юнга

Exercise 2. Translate into English the following:

1. Плотность измеряется в килограммах на кубический метр.

2. Большинство материалов имеют более высокую плотность, чем вода и тонут в воде.

3. Плотность материала очень важна, особенно в авиации.

4. Модуль Юнга — отношение приложенной силы к упругой деформации данного материала.

5. Чем более металл жесткий, тем менее он деформируется под нагрузкой.

6. Когда металл растягивают, он сначала течет, то есть пластически деформируется.

7. Свинец, медь, алюминий и золото — самые ковкие металлы.

8. Сопротивление ползучести является очень важным свойством материалов, которые используются в авиационных моторах