ME-303 · Materials Technology/Official Syllabus
Materials Technology (ME-303) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Solidification of metals
- Solidification of metals
- Crystallisation
- Crystal and amorphous
- different types of bonds in different metals
- Crystallography
- Stability and metastability of metals
- Different mechanical properties of metals and other engineering materials like strength, hardness, elasticity, plasticity, Malleability, Ductility, Creep, Fatigue etc.
- Introduction to industrial metals, steels and prevailing manufacturing methods by manufacturers
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Unit 2
Cooling curves and Phase diagrams
- Cooling curves
- Isomorphous, Utectic, Eutectoid , Eutectoid solid solution, Peritectic and other phase diagrams
- Alloying
- Characteristics of alloying elements
- Iron – Carbon phase diagram
- T-T-T diagrams
- Types of Cast Iron
- Types of Stainless Steels
- Elastic, anelastic and Viscoelastic behaviour
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Unit 3
Heat treatment of metals
- Heat treatment of metals
- Based on phase diagram and T-T-T-Diagram the heat treatment of various metals
- Bulk heat treatments
- surface heat treatments
- Case carburising
- Types of Anealing
- Normalising
- Spherodising
- Phase Transformations like Parlite, Cementite, Austenite, Troostite,Bainite,Hard and soft Martensite etc.
- Laser hardening
- Cyniding
- Boriding
- Nitriding
- Flame hardening
- Ion implantation
- Heat treatment cycles
- Metallographic studies
- Optical Microscope
- Electron Microscope
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Unit 4
Destructive and non-destructive testing methods
- Destructive and non-destructive testing methods
- Tensile test
- Compression test
- shear test
- bend test
- Different types of Hardness tests
- Impact tests
- Fatigue tests
- Hardenability test
- Fracture analysis
- NDT Methods
- Different properties of Steels, Aluminium and it’s alloys, Copper and it’s alloys, Manganese and it’s alloys, Chromium and it’s alloys, Nickel and it’s alloys
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Unit 5
Chemical Analysis of different alloying elements in commercial metals
- Chemical Analysis of different alloying elements in commercial metals, C, Fe, Cr, Ni, Mn, Mg, S, P, Co, Mo, Etc.
- Different chemical reagents
- Equipments
- Volumetric and Gravimetric analysis
- Spot test
- Colorimetric methods
- Optical and spectrophotometric analysis
Laboratory Experiments
- Metallographic studies – Study of Optical microscope, Optically flat surface preparation, etching reagents, Grain size- ASME no., micro structures, Image analysis, Standard specimen
- Carbon, sulphur, Phosphorus determination, Strauhlin’s apparatus, Eggert’s Method in different samples
- Hardness and Hardenability test, Jeremy Cony test. Soft and hard Martensite
- Different heat treatment cycles using electric furnace [ Programmable preferred ], Annealing, Case carburising, Normalising, etc.
- Gravimetric / Volumetric - chemical analysis of alloying elements like, Cr, Ni, Mn, Si etc.
- Study of different instrumental method of analysis, spectrophotometers, Differential Scanning calorimeter
- Spot test for quick assessment of alloying elements like Mn, Cr, Ni, etc.
- Experiments / study of Non Destructive Methods, Ultrasonic test, Magnetic particle inspection, Dye penetration test, Eddy current test, Radiography test
- Cupping test / formability test for sheet metal
Reference Books
- Material Science — V. Raghwan
- MechanicalMetallurgy — G.E.Dieter
- Physical Metallurgy — P Chalmers
- Metallurgy for mechanical engineers — R. C.Rollason
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