Objective:
To make student aware of scientific, practical relationships among structure, properties and performance of all materials. To prepare sound base for detailed courses of engineering materials.
Course Contents:
Material classification and important properties: Requirement and selection factors.
Structure of solid material: Crystalline, no crystalline, atomic bonding and generalized properties, crystal structure, crystal planes & directions, crystal imperfections, diffusion mechanism of solid and its application.
Structure, properties and control of multiphase solids: Solid solutions, home rathery's rules for alloys, system, phases and structural constituents, phase diagrams and transformations, iron-carbon system and T T T diagram, heat treatment of steel and other alloys, effect of alloying elements on steel, case hardening and surface treatment.
Ceramic materials: General structure and properties of ceramics, silicate glass, refractory, abrasives etc.
Organic materials: Polymer and polymerization, structure and properties of plastics, rubber etc.
Composite material: Components and types (dispersion reinforced, laminar reinforced, fiber reinforced) and applications like Ferro cement, reinforced glass and polymer concrete.
Cement and concrete: Hydration mechanism, microstructure and related properties, constituents and admixture, high strength concretes.
Performance of material in service: Corrosion and oxidation, fracture and fatigue, performance under high temperature, radiation damages.
Reference Books:
1. Elementary Material Science - By Lawrence.
2. Material Science and Metallurgy - By Khanna.
3. Material Science- By R. Gupta
4. Material Science- By J. Patel.
Evaluation:
Internal 60 %
(Class
assignments/tutorials, Class attendance, Tests, Class interactions, and any
laboratory work if required
etc.)
Final 40 %
(Exam, Jury, Term Paper etc.)
