MT308

Non-Ferrous Physical Metallurgy 

 

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Aluminium and its alloys; physical chemical and mechanical properties, classifications, heat treatable and non heat treatable types - structural features  corrosion behaviour;  cladding and other methods of corrosion protection.

 

Titanium  and its alloys; physical, chemical and  mechanical properties of  titanium,  effect  of  other  elements  on   its properties, types of titanium alloys, microstructural  features, properties and applications.

 

Magnesium   and  its  alloys; structure,   properties  and applications   of  magnesium  and  some  its  alloys; metallurgy of magnesium castings; copper and its alloys, electrical conductivity as influenced by other elements, alloys for high conductivity

 

Lead, tin, zinc, antimony, silver, gold and platinum alloys, relevant phase diagrams and microstructural features, properties and applications

 

Creep resistant materials, structure-property relationship, high temperature   applications, superalloys, application based on structure and properties, Tungsten and Molybdenum alloys.

 

TEXT BOOKS

 

1.       Avner S. H., ‘Introduction to Physical Metallurgy’, 2nd  Edition, McGraw Hill, 1974

2.       Brick R. M., Gorden R. B, Phillips A., ‘Structure and Properties of Alloys’, McGraw Hill, 1965

 

REFERENCES

 

1.     Polmear  I. J., ‘Light Alloys -Metallurgy of  the Light Metals’, 3rd Edition, Arnold, 1995

2.     N. S. Stoloff and Sikka V. K., ‘Physical Metallurgy and Processing of Intermetallic Compound’,    Chapman and Hall, 1996