Materials Option
Materials Option
Typical topics to be considered toward a satisfactory coverage of the lecture and laboratory components of the materials curriculum.III. Specific Properties and MaterialsLECTURE COMPONENT
I. Basic Chemical and Physical Aspects
II. Materials
- Bonding
- Atomic structure
- The ionic bond
- The covalent bond
- The metallic bond
- Secondary forces
- Materials - The bonding classification
- Crystal Structure
- Lattices
- Metal structures
- Ceramic structures
- Polymeric structures
- Semiconductor structures
- X-ray diffraction
- Non-Crystalline Structures
- The solid solution - chemical imperfection
- Defects - point, linear, planar
- Noncrystalline solids - three-dimensional imperfection
- Electron microscopy
- Phase Diagrams
- The phase rule
- The phase diagram
- The lever rule
- Microstructural development
- Important binary diagrams
- Heat Treatment
- Time -The third dimension
- The TTT diagram
- Hardenability
- Precipitation hardening
- Annealing
- The kinetics of phase transformation for nonmentals
- Metals
- Ferrous alloys
- Nonferrous alloys
- Major mechanical properties
- Ceramics and Glasses
- Crystalline ceramics
- Glasses - Non-Crystalline ceramics
- Glass-ceramics
- Major mechanical and optical properties
- Polymers
- Polymerization
- Structural features of polymers
- Thermoplastic polymers
- Thermosetting polymers
- Additives
- Major mechanical and optical properties
- Semiconductors
- Instrinsic, elemental semiconductors
- Extrinsic, elemental semiconductors
- Compound semiconductors
- Composites
- Man-made, fiber-reinforced composites
- Wood - The natural fiber-reinforced composite
- Aggregate composites
- Property averaging
- Major mechanical properties
IV. Structural Materials and Environmental Aspects
- Electrical Conductions
- Charge carriers and conduction
- Energy levels and energy bands
- Conductors
- Insulators
- Semiconductors
- Composites
- Materials - The electrical classification
- Magnetic Materials
- Ferromagnetism
- Ferrimagnetism
- Metallic magnets
- Ceramic magnets
- Design Criteria and Materials Selection
- Material properties - Engineering design parameters
- General effects of processing on parameters
- Selection of structural materials
- Selection of electronictand magnetic materials
- Environmental Degradation
- Oxidation - Direct atmospheric attack
- Aqueous corrosion - Electrochemical attack
- Galvanic two-metal corrosion
- Corrosion by gaseous reduction
- Effect of mechanical stress on corrosion
- Methods of corrosion prevention
- Chemical degradation of ceramics and polymers
- Radiation damage
- LAB COMPONENTS
- May address the following areas:
- Liquid Flow
- Solid Deformation
- Thermal Properties
- Electrical Conductivity and Semi-conductivity
- Microscopy
- Diffraction Technique
- Processing
- Testing of Shaped Article