ME8491 - Engineering Metallurgy Syllabus Regulation 2017

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Aim Of Concept:

To impart knowledge on the structure, properties, treatment, testing and applications of metals and non-metallic materials so as to identify and select suitable materials for various engineering applications.

ME8491 – Engineering Metallurgy Syllabus

Unit I: Alloys And Phase Diagrams

Constitution of alloys – Solid solutions, substitutional and interstitial – phase diagrams, Isomorphous, eutectic, eutectoid, peritectic, and peritectoid reactions, Iron – carbon equilibrium diagram. Classification of steel and cast Iron microstructure, properties and application.

Unit II: Heat Treatment

Definition – Full annealing, stress relief, recrystallization and spheroidising – normalising, hardening, and Tempering of steel. Isothermal transformation diagrams – cooling curves superimposed on.
I. T. diagram CCR – Hardenability, Jominy end quench test – Austempering, martempering – case hardening, carburizing, Nitriding, cyaniding, carbonitriding – Flame and Induction hardening – Vacuum and Plasma hardening.

Unit III: Ferrous And Non-Ferrous Metals

Effect of alloying additions on steel- a and p stabilizers- stainless and tool steels – HSLA, Maraging steels – Cast Iron – Grey, white, malleable, spheroidal – alloy cast irons, Copper and copper alloys – Brass, Bronze and Cupronickel – Aluminium and Al-Cu – precipitation strengthening treatment – Bearing alloys, Mg-alloys, Ni-based super alloys and Titanium alloys.

Unit IV: Non-Metallic Materials

Polymers – types of polymer, commodity, and engineering polymers – Properties and applications of various thermosetting and thermoplastic polymers (PP, PS, PVC, PMMA, PET, PC, PA, ABS, PI, PAI, PPO, PPS, PEEK, PTFE, Polymers – Urea and Phenol formaldehydes) – Engineering Ceramics – Properties and applications of Al2O3, SiC, Si3N4, PSZ, and SIALON – Composites – Classifications – Metal Matrix and FRP – Applications of Composites.

Unit V: Mechanical Properties And Deformation Mechanisms

Mechanisms of plastic deformation, slip, and twinning – Types of fracture – Testing of materials under tension, compression, and shear loads – Hardness tests (Brinell, Vickers, and Rockwell), hardness tests, Impact test load, and Charpy, fatigue, and creep failure mechanisms.

Text Books:

1. Avner, S.H., “Introduction to Physical Metallurgy”, McGraw Hill Book Company,1997.
2. Williams D Callister, “Material Science and Engineering” Wiley India Pvt Ltd, Revised Indian Edition 2014

References:

1. Kenneth G.Budinski and Michael K. Budinski, “Engineering Materials”, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, 2010.
2. Raghavan. V, “Materials Science and Engineering”, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., 2015.
3. U.C. Jindal: Material Science and Metallurgy, “Engineering Materials and Metallurgy”, First Edition, Dorling Kindersley, 2012.
4. Upadhyay. G.S. and Anish Upadhyay, “Materials Science and Engineering”, Viva Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2006.