MT460

Emerging Materials

 

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Techniques of rapid solidification. production of metallic glasses, atomic arrangement,  comparison with crystalline alloys - mechanical, electrical, magnetic, superconducting and chemical properties and applications

 

Phase diagrams of ferritic, martensitic and austenitic stainless steels, duplex stainless steels, precipitation hardenable stainless steels, mechanical and metallurgical properties of stainless steels, HSLA steels, micro-alloyed steels

 

Aluminium alloys, magnesium alloys and titanium alloys; metallurgical aspects, mechanical properties and applications 

 

Development of super alloys-iron  base, nickel base and cobalt base - properties and their applications; materials for cryogenic service, materials in nuclear field, materials used in space

 

Carbonaceous materials - including nano tubes and fullerenes;  shape  memory alloys, functionally gradient materials, high  temperature super conductors - bio materials

           

TEXT BOOKS

 

1.       Sukh Dev Sehgal,  Lindberg R.A., ‘Materials, their Nature, Properties and Fabrication’,  S  Chand, 1973

2.      Polmear I. J. ‘Light alloys: Metallurgy of Light Metals’, 3rd Edition, Arnold,    1995