MT354

Design and Selection of Materials

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PRE-REQUISITE: Candidate should have under gone courses in Physical metallurgy, Metallic materials, Ceramics, Polymers, Composites, Mechanical behaviour of materials and Manufacturing Processes in undergraduate or in post graduate level.

 

Technologically important properties of materials - Physical, chemical, mechanical, thermal, optical, environmental and electrical properties of materials. Material property charts - Modulus – density, strength-density, fracture toughness-strength,    

 

Types of design, Design tools and materials data – Materials and shape – microscopic and micro structural shape factors – limit to shape efficiency Comparison of structural sections and material indices – case studies

 

Service, Fabrication and economic requirements for the components – Methodology for selection of materials – Collection of data on availability, requirements and non functional things- its importance to the situations – case studies                                                                                                

Classifying process- -systematic selection of process – Selection charts - Ranking of processes – case studies - Influence of manufacturing aspects and processing route on properties of materials and its influence on selection of materials.                                                                                                                                

Selection of materials for automobile, nuclear, power generation, aerospace, petrochemical, electronic and mining industries.                   

 

TEXT BOOKS

 

1.       M.F.Ashby, “ Materials Selection in Mechanical Design’ – Third edition, Elsevier publishers, Oxford, 2005.

2.       Gladius Lewis,"Selection of Engineering Materials", Prentice Hall Inc, New Jersey, USA, 1995.

 

REFERENCES

 

1.     Charles.J.A. and Crane,F.A.A., "Selection and Use of Engineering Materials", Butterworths, London, UK,         1989.