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1. Subject Code: MT- 304 Course Title: Ceramics and Metal Powder Processing
7 Glasses: Glass formation: kinetics and criteria for glass formation; glass 5
structure; glass properties: glass transition temperature, thermodynamic
considerations; Glass-ceramics: processing, properties and industrial
applications.
8 Powder products and selected applications: Sintered carbides and carbide 5
tools; Cermets; Dispersion strengthened materials; Electrical contact materials;
Friction materials.
Total 42
List of Practicals
1. To determine the density of powder using liquid pycnometric method.
2. To study powder processing and role of additives.
3. To determine apparent density, tap density and flow rate of powders.
4. To prepare green compacts of powder using uniaxial pressing method at various compaction
pressures (compressibility).
5. To study the green density of the samples as a function of applied load.
6. To study solid-state sintering behavior of the green compacted samples at different temperatures
and soaking time periods.
7. To study the linear shrinkage of the samples due to sintering and study their densification
characteristics.
8. To study microstructure of the sintered powder samples.
9. To determine the average grain size from the micrographs of ceramic samples by linear
interception method.