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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KARNATAKA, SURATHAKAL
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Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
MT200 MECHANICAL TESTING (2-0-0) 2
Cohesion between atoms: bonds, potential energy Vs interatomic distance curves, prediction of physical
properties based on these curves; crystal systems: fundamentals of crystal structure of metals; tension
testing: tensile properties, strain aging, ductile and brittle materials; Erichson cupping test, directionality;
torsion test: specimen behaviour under torsion; hardness test: Brinell, Rockwell and Vickers test, relation
between hardness and tensile strength, microhardness testing; creep test: creep curve, stress rupture test;
fatigue test: S-N curve, statistical nature, effect of mean stress; impact test: Charpy and Izod test,
transition temperature; structures & properties of engineering materials.
V.S.R. Murthy, A.K. Sema, K.P. Gupta, G.S. Murthy, Structure & Properties of Engg Materials, Tata
McGraw Hill, ND, 2003.
Dieter G.E. Mechanical Metallurgy, McGraw Hill 1988 (SI Metric).
MT201 METALLURGICAL THERMODYNAMICS (3-1-0) 4
Review of first and second laws of thermodynamics, Maxwell's relations; free energy concept and
applications, general strategy of deriving thermodynamic relations; third law of thermodynamics; related
problems from Dube & Upadhyaya. Solutions, partial molar properties, Gibbs-Duhem equation, fugacity,
activity, equilibrium constant; regular solutions, integration of G-D equation, dilute solutions, interaction
parameter; equilibrium in thermodynamic systems, structure of unary phase diagrams in (P,T)
space, Clausius -Clapeyron equation, triple point, alternative representation of unary diagrams; Gibbs
phase rule, Free energy-composition diagrams, Ellingham diagrams; activation energy, effect of
activation energy on reaction rate, chemically controlled reactions (both ideal and non-ideal systems).
Robert T. DeHoff, Thermodynamics in Materials Science, McGraw Hill International, 1993
David R Gaskell, Introduction to Metallurgical Thermodynamics, McGraw Hill International, 1973
G.S.Upadhyaya and R.S.Dube, Problems in Metallurgical Thermodynamics and Kinetics, Pergamon,
1977
Ahindra Ghosh, Textbook of Materials & Metallurgical Thermodynamics, PHJ, 2003.
Hem Shankar Roy, Kinetics of Metallurgical Reactions, Oxford, BH, 1993.
MT202 NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING (2-0-0) 2
Terms, definition, value of NDT, X -ray radiography: production of X -rays, absorption, scattering,
X-ray film processing; industrial radiographic practice, micro-radiography, Gamma radiography:
radioactivity, gamma ray sources; Industrial Computed Tomography: principles and applications;
ultrasonics: types of waves, production of ultrasonic wave, techniques, thickness measurement, types of
scanning, types of indication, welding inspection, tube inspection, test standards, determination of elastic
constants; magnetic methods: magnetisation guides in application, limitation, standards; penetration
methods: surface flaw detection, application.
McGonnangle, W.J., Nondestructive Testing, Gorden and Breach, New York, 2nd edn.
Baldev Raj, T. Jayakumar, M. Thavasimuthu, Nondestructive Testing, Narosa Publishing House, 1997
MT250 PHYSICAL METALLURGY (3-1-0) 4 PREREQ : MT 200
Structure of metals, space lattice, unit cells, crystal systems, metallic crystal structures, packing
efficiencies, planes and directions, voids, imperfections in crystalline solids, dislocations and plastic
deformation, theoretical shear strength, concept of dislocations, types of dislocations, Burgers vector,
strain field associated with dislocations, dissociation of dislocations, climb and cross slip, dislocation
interactions, plastic deformation by twin, yield point phenomenon, strain ageing, work hardening in single
and polycrystalline materials, effect of temperature, composition and grain size on strain hardening,
recovery, recrystallisation and grain growth, high temperature deformation of crystalline materials,
diffusion in solids, applications of diffusion concepts, solidification of metals, freezing of alloys, Scheil
equation,
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