ME-229 MATERIALS ENGINEERING
CREDIT HOURS
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COURSE CONTENT
- Introduction: Importance of Material Science and Engineering, classification of materials, material property charts
- Crystallography: Types of crystal structures, atomic packing factor, Miller indices of crystallographic planes and directions
- Imperfections in solids: Classification of defects, types of point defects and their effects on material properties, dislocations, kinetics of dislocations, dislocation interactions, significance of dislocations on material permanent deformation
- Mechanical properties of materials: Deformation behavior of materials under tensile and compressive loads, Hardness testing, Testing of materials under impact loading, fundamentals of fracture mechanics, material characterization of fracture surfaces, stress distribution around a crack, fatigue testing, S-N curves, creep deformation behavior & ASTM standards for all mechanical tests
- Heat treatment and phase transformation in materials: Types of heat treatment processes, effects of heat treatment on material structure and properties, concepts of phases in solids, solubility limit in solid solutions, strengthening mechanisms (solid solution and precipitate strengthening), binary phase diagrams, iron-iron carbide phase diagram, Phase transformation and development of microstructures.
- Polymers and applications: Structure of Polymers, Thermoplastics and Thermosetting Polymers, Introduction to Polymerization Reactions, Mechanical Behavior and Defects in Polymers.
- Ceramics and its applications: Ceramic Structure, Imperfections in ceramics, Mechanical Properties, Types, and Engineering Applications.
- Composites: Introduction, Particle Reinforced Composites, Fiber Reinforced Composites, Processing of Composites, Sandwich Panels.
- Material Degradation: Corrosion and its types, corrosion prevention methods, Environmental and Societal Considerations in Materials Science and Engineering, Basic Characterization Techniques of Materials
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Text Book(s)
- William D. Callister, David G. Rethwisch. Materials Science and Engineering, 10th Ed, John Wiley & Sons, 2021.
- William F. Smith., Javad Hashemi, Foundation of Materials Science and Engineering, 7th ed, McGraw-Hill, 2022.
Reference Book(s)
- Yarub Al-Douri, Nanomaterials: Basics to Applications, Springer, 2022.
- Avner, Sidney H. Introduction to Physical Metallurgy. Tenth Edition, 2020. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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