Unit 1

Structure of Crystalline Solids – Interatomic Bonding – Crystal Systems – UNIT cells – Metallic Crystal Structures – Miller indices – Crystallographic planes and directions – Linear and Planar Atomic Densities – Imperfections in Solids: Point – Linear – Interfacial defects.

Elastic, Anelastic and Plastic behaviour. Mechanical properties – stress-strain curves for ductile and brittle alloys. Ductility – Resilience -toughness. Hardness testing. Dislocations and plastic deformation. Slip phenomenon. Slip in single crystals.

Unit 2

Strengthening mechanisms – grain boundary hardening, solution hardening, work hardening. Ductile and Brittle Fracture – fracture mechanics. Impact testing. Ductile – brittle transition. Fatigue and creep properties. S-N Curves Fatigue and creep testing.

Constitution of alloys-solid solution, intermetallic compound, Hume-Rothery rule. Phase diagram-phase rule, lever principle, isomorphous, eutectic, peritectic and eutectoid reactions. Iron-Carbon phase diagram, equilibrium and non-equilibrium cooling in solid state, isothermal transformation, martensite and bainite reactions.

Unit 3

• Avner S. H. – ‘Physical Metallurgy’ – McGraw Hill Education – 2000 – 2^nd Edition
• Shackelford J. F. – ‘Introduction to Materials Science for Engineers’ – Prentice Hall 2014 – 8^th Edition
• Javed Hashemi, Smith F. W. – ‘Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering’ – McGraw Hill Education – 2010 – 5^th Edition.
• Dieter G. E. – ‘Mechanical Metallurgy’ – TATA McGraw Hill – 2013 – 3^rd Edition.