Teaching

1. MT 307 (AUG) 3:0: Materials in Extreme Environments

Course content

Overview of Engineering Systems Under Extreme Environment Background Review: Microstructure and Atomic Structure, Dislocations, Twins, Materials Response Under Quasi-static Loadings, Strengthening Mechanisms, Effect of Temperature on Microstructure and Properties, Creep, High-Temperature Fatigue

Materials Response Under Mechanical Extremes: Loading States, Elastic Waves in Solids, Shock Loading, Distance-Time Diagrams, Static High-Pressure Devices, Platforms for Loading at Intermediate Strain Rates, Platforms for Shock and Quasi-Isentropic Loading, Shock Compression of FCC, BCC and HCP Metals, Amorphous Metals, Phase Transformations, Plasticity in Compression, Ramp Loading, Release, Spallation and Failure, Adiabatic Shear, Response of Ceramics.

Materials Response Under Irradiation: Irradiation Basics, Irradiation-Processes Leading to Extreme Situations, Irradiation Using Different Incident Beams, Defect Dynamics in Materials Under Irradiation, Irradiation-Enhanced Diffusion, Irradiation-Induced Segregation, Radiation-Induced/Enhanced Phase Transformation, Influence of Radiation-Induced Microstructure on Mechanical Properties

Materials in Hostile Corrosive Environment: Introduction, Corrosion by Liquid Sodium, Materials for The Hostile Corrosive Environments in Steam Water Environments, Materials in Seawater Environments

References:

1. George Dieter, Mechanical Metallurgy

2. Neil Bourne, Materials response under mechanical extreme

3. Gary Was, Fundamentals of Radiation Materials Science

2. MT 220 (JAN) 3:0: Microstructural Engineering of Structural Materials

Course content

Elements of microstructure; Role of microstructure on properties; Review of crystalline defects; Methods of controlling microstructures: materials processing routes, heat treatments, phase transformations and mechanisms; Processing of cast and wrought alloys, Processing of nanostructured materials, processing of single crystals, Introduction to light metal alloys (Al-based, Mg-based and Ti-based), Introduction to high-temperature superalloys, Introduction to high entropy alloys, Control of multiphase microstructures with case studies, hierarchical microstructures, composites; adaptive microstructures.

References:

1. R. E. Reed-Hill and R. Abbaschian: Physical Metallurgy Principles, P.W.S-Kent, 1992

2. David A. Porter, K. E. Easterling, Phase transformations in metals and alloys, Chapman & Hall, 2nd edition, 1992

3. Ian Polmear, Light Alloys, 4th edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006

4. Roger C. Reed, The Superalloys: Fundamentals and applications, Cambridge University Press, 2006