Syllabus

Crystal structure, Bravais lattice, crystallographic planes and direction, atomic packing factor, Phase, Gibbs Phase rule, equilibrium phase diagram, solid solution, substitutional and interstitial solid solution, phase transformation, homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation, growth, Fe-C phase diagram, pearlitic, bainitic and martensitic transformation, TTT and CCT diagram. Bulk heat treatment- annealing, normalizing, hardening and tempering. surface heat treatment and thermochemical heat treatment processes.

To learn the fundamental principles of physical metallurgy

The concepts of alloy design and microstructural engineering will also be discussed in this course.

The major objective of this course is to provide a physical basis that links the structure of materials with their properties.

Topics like heat treatment, phase transformation, phase diagrams, precipitation hardening, aging, and phase diagrams will be taught in this course.

1. To give the student the basic knowledge of the principles of Physical Metallurgy which is essential for all Metallurgical Engineering graduates.
2. As Metallurgical Engineering graduates are expected to serve the iron and steel industries the students will be made aware of all the essential knowledge of physical metallurgy which the student should know to understand the iron making, steel making, and the Fe-C system.
3. The students will be taught how to interpret the phase diagram of materials and the students will be made aware of the theory of phase transformations in metals and alloys
4. The students will be made aware of the heat treatment of steels and the various strengthening mechanisms.
5. The student will have clear concepts of alloy design and microstructural engineering.
6. The student would also know about the structure of materials with their properties.

V. Raghavan, Materials Science and Engineering, Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited

Vijendra Singh, Physical Metallurgy, Standard Publisher

W.D. Callister, Materials Science & Engineering-An Introduction, John Wiley & Sons

W.F. Smith, Principles of Materials Science and Engineering, McGraw Hill