Jominy Bar Simulator for ME230 - Lab 3
This simulation is written with the intention of emulating the real life experimentation with Jominy Bars and the Measurement of hardness.
It is design specifically for the ME230 course in the Mechanical Engineering Program in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
The general design philosophy is to be as realistic as possible, including some of the limitations (like the number of side that can be ground flat for hardness testing) when working with a real Jominy bar and Hardness testing.
Some Credit and Citation
The video is temporarily borrowed from Daniel Samborsky's Youtube Channel (Linked Here) until we can get our own video in place (likely after it is deemed safe to go to work)
The hardness testing is based on the model provided by Dr. Elliot Biro in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo and is based on the work of Yurioka et al. Metal Construction 1987, 19 (4) 217R-223R.
The initial model by Yurioka et al. yields only Vickers Hardness values. The hardness values in other scale are converted using the equations listed in ASTM stanndard E140. No error checking was included in regards to making sure the conversion is only done at a valid range as this is a form of experimental error that can also be encouter in real life.
This has been tested on Mozilla Firefox 81, Google Chrome 85, and Microsoft Edge 85 on a PC. I do not own a Mac nor have access to a Mac, so I could not test this on Safari.
Disclaimer this applet was written with a fairly short development time (Less than 2 weeks) in response to the shift to online education as a result of the Covid 19 Pandemic.
The code can likely be better optimized and be more elegant, but as far as I know it should work without frying anyone's machine but I cannot offer any gurranttee on that.
I am only a 'recreational' programmer not a professional. Moreover, this applet was written mostly outside of normal working hours (and in the late night usually) after a long day of work so I cannot guranttee there are no mistakes here and there. If you do spot it, you can try to contact me but I'm unsure when and if I can fix it.
