Course syllabus
Course-PM
Materials Science and Engineering
MTT010 Materialteknik, SP4, 2019/2020, 7.5 HEC
Aims
The students are expected to attain basic understanding about materials science and engineering, in particular the relations between the structure, properties and processing of materials. The level of understanding should be such that the students in their profession as engineers should be able to participate in discussions regarding materials selection and choices of processing methods for materials. Materials encountered in the course are metals, ceramics and polymeric materials, primarily for engineering purposes.
Learning outcomes
After the course, the student should be able to:
- Describe how different kinds of materials (metals including alloys, ceramics and polymers) are structured in terms of atomic bonding and crystal structure and also describe how the structure will affect some of their properties; Recognize product-related problem that requires taking into account the material's microstructure.
- Apply phase diagrams and TTT-diagrams; to read them and from the diagram predict the microstructure after different heat treatments.
- Describe how mechanical properties of the materials are influenced by a change of the microstructure; to relate this change to the specific hardening mechanism.
- Choose suitable manufacturing or heat treatment methods for specific properties and microstructure; discuss the choices of criteria to reach a good result.
- Describe how corrosion is induced; discuss possibilities to avoid corrosion.
- Identify a few selected materials.
- Make a reflection regarding materials selection for an industrial product with the perspective of environmental sustainability.
Contents
The course starts with basic materials science, aiming for understanding the correlation of the structure, the properties and choice of manufacturing and heat treatment technology. The different materials groups are metals, polymers and ceramics.
The course contains the following parts:
Basic materials science:
Phases, crystal structures and microstructures
Defects and diffusion
Mechanical properties
Phase diagrams of metals
Electrical properties
Corrosion of metals
Introduction to materials selection in product development
Polymeric materials:
Structure and characterization
Thermal and chemical properties
Mechanical, electrical and surface properties
Ceramic materials:
Structures
Mechanical properties
Manufacturing
Literature
The main literature source is the book:
William F. Smith, Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering, McGraw-Hill 2011, 5th edition, ISBN 978-007-131114-4 or MHID 007-131114-9.
Organisation and Structure
Examiner: Assoc. Prof. Yu Cao (YC) phone: 031-7721252 yu.cao@chalmers.se
Other lecturers: Prof. Antal Boldizar (AB) antal.boldizar@chalmers.se
Course assistant: Ahmad Raza (1 Ass, labansvarig) Ahmad Raza <ahmadra@chalmers.se>
Lilian Forsgren (övn, lab) lilian.forsgren@chalmers.se
Student representatives
TKDES Saga Jilsén saga.jilsen@gmail.com
TKIEK Erik Jonasson erikjonasson@hotmail.com
TKMAS Måns Karlsson maanskarlsson@hotmail.com
TKDES Rebecca Nibelius nibelius@kth.se
TKIEK Carl Strand carl.strand@hotmail.com
Student Administration of department (mainly for exam and general enquiries):
Hanije Safakar phone 031-7721265 e-mail: hanije@chalmers.se
The course includes about 23 lectures and 9 tutorials. The experimental classes (Computer-based lab Matter, Optical microscopy, Structure and properties of polymeric materials) will be modified this year. More information will be provided later.
Examination
Passing the course requires passed final exam and approved laboratory sessions.
The written exam is based on materials from both teaching as well as the book on 4th June 2020. Make sure to register the exam in due time according to what is written at the Study Portal. The exam is formulated in English. Permitted aids are a dictionary and a Chalmers approved calculator. The grading will be as follows: 3 > 40% (20 out of 50), 4 > 60% (30 out of 50), 5 > 75% (37.5 out of 50). Passing the exam qualifies for 6 credit units.
Participating in all modified laboratory sessions (or variants) and getting approved qualifies for 1.5 credit units.
Course home page
Handouts from lectures, latest version of this document, news about lectures etc can be found on the course home page at:
https://chalmers.instructure.com/courses/9509
Basic info on the course is available on:
https://www.student.chalmers.se/sp/course?course_id=29568
Laboratory sessions (preliminary, might be changed)
Due to the coronavirus this year, laboratory sessions have to be modified and run in a special way. More information will be given during the course. Note that you must prepare yourself in advance in order to clarify the “lab” within the “lab” time and get approved. Please be on time!
Lab1 (2h): Optical microstructure of steels;
Lab2 (2h): Structure and properties of polymeric materials;
Lab3 (2h): Introduction of computer-based CES EduPack - a set of texts and software tools for materials and manufacturing processes.
Quizzes
You will find quiz questions in the form of multiple choices from the course webpage. Quizzes are compulsory and please answer them by the due time. Depending on the results, you will benefit from bonus points which will be added to the final exam results. You will get 1 extra point with 20 correct answers.
Schedule
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