Mat. Sci. 605 - Quantitative Intro. to Materials

Materials Science and Engineering 605
Principles of Materials Science

Fall, 2000

Course Objectives:
This course is an advanced quantitative survey of the key principles that govern engineering materials. At the end of this course students should understand in a quantitative fashion how materials processing affects microstructrual development and how microstrucure affects properties. This course is intended as a transition course for students with a strong technical background who would like to begin advanced studies in materials science and engineering. As a result it is a survey where breadth is emphasized over depth.

Meeting time and Place:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1-2:48 PM, Room 395 Watts Hall.

Prerequisites:
Junior or senior status (or greater) in a technical discipline. Students in materials science and engineering are not allowed to take this course for credit, but graduate students from all other technical disciplines are welcome.

Evaluation:
30% Assigned homework
30% Midterm examination
40% Final Examination

* On each the midterm and final each student is allowed to prepare one side of one 8.5" X 11" sheet of paper with any equations or notes they desire for reference during the exam.

Text: Physical Metallurgy Principles, 3d Edition, R. E. Reed-Hill and R. Abbaschian, PWS-Kent, 1992.

This will be supplemented with course notes and web resources.

Course Operation:

The present plan is to effectively cover the first 18 chapters of Reed-Hill in a one-a-day fashion. Students must read ahead so the course can be as much based on discussion and clearification as on 'lecture'.

In addition, each Tuesday we will discuss homework problems in the last part of the class. Each Thrusday we will have a lab-experience in the last part of class.

Additonal Useful Resources:

Web
See below.
More web resoruces to be added soon....

Very Good Resource books
Ashby and Jones, Engineering Materials I and II, Butterworth-Henimann (first or second editons are nearly identical)

Barrett, Nix and Tetleman, Principles of Engineering Materials, Prentice-Hall, 1973.

ASM Metals Handbook, ASM International

Shackelford, Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering, Prentice-Hall 1996.

Course Outline:

(Lecture# and Topic with web resources below...)

1 Structure of metals
         Penn State Crystallography Primer
         Making Matter: Laue Institute, Grenoble, France
         Crystal Structures (NRL)
         More Crystal Structures (Java from Iowa)
         Crystals from King's College
         3D crystal structures (you need glasses)

2 Analytical Methods
Metallography.com
Diffraction primer course

3 Crystal Bonding

4 Introduction to Dislocations - I