Engineering Metallurgy

(Pre-requisite: ME 391)

Age-hardening and isothermal transformation processes, quenching and tempering, hardenability and graphitization processes. Fracture mechanics applied to metal, ceramics and polymers. Dislocation. X-ray and electron diffraction. Industrial metallurgy, corrosion and high temperature oxidation theories. Material conservation. Quenching of metals, glasses, polymers textiles, paper and wood. Transport processes; analysis of heat and mass in materials processing operations.