10AU32A/10AU42A IA MATERIAL SCIENCE AND METALLURGY Syllabus Visvesvaraya Technological University

MATERIAL SCIENCE AND METALLURGY
Sub Code : 10AU32A/10AU42A IA Marks : 25
Hrs/week : 04 Exam Hours : 03
Total Lecture Hrs : 52 Exam Marks: 100
PART - A
UNIT – 1 Crystal Structure:
BCC, FCC and HCP Structures, coordination number and atomic packing factors, crystal imperfections -point
line and surface imperfections. Atomic Diffusion: Phenomenon, Flick's laws of diffusion, factors affecting
diffusion.
06 Hours
UNIT – 2 Mechanical Behaviour:
Stress-strain diagram showing ductile and brittle behaviour of materials, linear and non linear elastic
behaviour and properties, mechanical properties in plastic range, yield strength offset yield strength, dutility,
ultimate tensile strength, toughness. Plastic deformation of single crystal by slip and twinning.
06 Hours
UNIT – 3
Fracture:
Type I, Type II and Type III.
Creep:
Description of the phenomenon with examples. three stages of creep, creep properties, stress relaxation.
3
Fatigue:
Types of fatigue loading with examples, Mechanism of fatigue, fatigue properties, fatigue testing and SN
diagram.
07 Hours
UNIT – 4 Solidification:
Mechanism of solidification, Homogenous and Hetrogeneous nucleation, crystal growth, cast metal
structures.
Phase Diagram I:
Solid solutions Hume Rothary rule substitional, and interstitial solid solutions, intermediate phases, Gibbs
phase rule.
07 Hours
PART - B
UNIT – 5 Phase Diagram II:
Construction of equilibrium diagrams involving complete and partial solubility, lever rule. Iron carbon
equilibrium diagram description of phases, solidification of steels and cast irons, invariant reactions.
06 Hours
UNIT – 6 Heat treating of metals:
TTT curves, continous cooling curves, annealing and its types. normalizing, hardening, tempering,
martempering, austempering, hardenability, surface hardening methods like carburizing, cyaniding, nitriding,
flarne hardening and induction hardening, age hardening of aluminium-copper alloys.
07 Hours
UNIT – 7 Ferrous and non ferrous materials:
Properties, Compostion and uses of
• Grey cast iron, malleable iron, S.G iron and steel
• Copper alloys-brasses and bronzes.
• Aluminium alloys-Al-Cu,Al-Si,Al-Zn alloys.
06 Hours
UNIT – 8 Composite Materials:
Definition, classification, types of matrix materials & reinforcements, fundamentals of production of FRP' sand
MMC's advantages and application of composites.
07 Hours
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering, Smith, 3rd Edition McGraw Hill, 2009
2. Materials Science, Shackleford., & M. K. Muralidhara, Pearson Publication – 2007.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. An introductionn to Metallurgy; Alan Cottrell, University Press India Oriental Longman Pvt. Ltd.,
1974.
2. Engineering Materials Science, W.C.Richards, PHI, 1965
3. Physical Metallurgy; Lakhtin, Mir Publications
4. Materials Science and Engineering, V.Raghavan , PHI, 2002
5. Elements of Materials Science and Engineering, H. VanVlack, Addison- Wesley Edn., 1998