MEE 202: MATERIALS SCIENCE

Credits: 04
Module No.

Semester III
Content

LTP: 310
Teaching Hours

II

III

Introduction: Historical perspective, importance & requirement of materials, Chemical bondings. Crystallography and Imperfections: Concept of unit cell space lattice, Bravais-lattices, common crystal structures, Atomic packing factor and density. Miller indices. X-ray crystallography techniques. Imperfections, Dislocations in solids. Mechanical properties and Testing: Stress strain diagram, Ductile & brittle material, Stress vs strength. Toughness, Hardness, Fracture, Fatigue and Creep. Testings such as Strength testings, Hardness testings, Impact testings, Fatigue testing, Creep testing, Non-destructive testings (NDT). Equilibrium Diagrams : Types of equilibrium-diagrams: Solid-solution type, Eutectic type and Combination type. Iron-Carbon EquilibriumDiagram and its importance. Heat Treatment: Various types of heat treatment such as Annealing, Normalizing, Quenching, Tempering and Case hardening. Time Temperature Transformation (TTT) diagrams. Cast Iron and its properties and application, various types of alloy steels, Iron & Steel Making furnaces Die-electric materials: Die-electric materials and its uses. Magnetic materials: Concept of magnetism - Dia, para, ferro-Hysteresis. Soft and Hard magnetic materials, Magnetic storages. Semiconductors &devices: Energy band concept of conductor, insulator and semi-conductor. Intrinsic & extrinsic semi-conductors. Super conductivity & superconductors: Superconductivity and its applications. Meissner effect. Type I & II superconductors. Concept and applications of Ceramics, Polymers, Composites, Metallic Form, Nano Materials and Smart Materials etc.

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References:

Callister W.D., Jr, Material Science & Engineering Addition-Wesley Publication Gupta K.M., Materials Science, Umesh Publication Vlash Van Elements of Material Science & Engineering, John Wiley & Sons Raghvan V., Material Science, Prentice Hall Narula Material Science, TMH Srivastava, Srinivasan Science of Materials Engineering, New Age Publication