MT41024: Mechanical Behaviour Of Ceramics, Intermetallics And Composites

MT41024
Course name	Mechanical Behaviour Of Ceramics, Intermetallics And Composites
Offered by	Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Credits	3
L-T-P	3-0-0
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Semester	Spring

Syllabus

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Prerequisite - MT21107, MT21008, MT31007Ceramics: Structure and Bonding of ceramics with examples including oxides, carbides, nitrides and borides, Dislocations in Ceramics, Mechanical Testing Procedures, Statistical Treatment of Strength, Fracture: Subcritical Crack Propagation, R-Curve Behaviour, Fatigue crack initiation and propagation, Thermal Shock Resistance, Creep, Stress rupture and superplasticity.Intermetallics: Structure and Bonding in Titanium Aluminides, Nickel Alumindes, Iron Aluminides and Molybdenum DiSilicide, Dislocation structures and reactions, Concept of Antiphase boundaries, and stacking faults with examples, Brittle to ductile transition temperatures and methods of ductility enhancement, Anomalous yield strength, Creep and Stress-rupture, Fracture, and Fatigue Behaviour of selected intermetallics.Composites: Elastic Behaviour and Strengthening Mechanisms of particulate, whisker and fibre-reinforced composites, laminated composites and multilayered coatings, Theories of composite strengthening, Fracture and Toughening Mechanisms, Fatigue and Creep aspects of metal, ceramic and polymer matrix composites.Text Books:1.J.W. Wachtman: Mechanical Properties of Ceramics, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1996.2.J.H. Westbrook and R.L. Fleischer: Intermetallic Compounds: Principles and Practice, Volume I., John Wiley