MT460
Emerging Materials
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