Physical Metallurgy II

This is an important core course to be mastered before students go on six months industrial training. At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. demonstrate being conversant with structure-property-application relationship of metals and alloys; 2. manipulate structure metals and alloys to modify their properties for specific application using appropriate scientific principles and phase diagrams; 3. draw and explain the Iron-Carbon and TTT diagrams; and 4. explain the concept of recrystallisation.

Binary and ternary equilibrium diagrams and applications in metallurgy; theory of alloy, solidification of metals and alloys; introduction to heat treatment of metals including normalising, tempering, quenching, annealing and case hardening of metals; phase transformation, iron-carbon diagram and TTT diagram; theory of recrystallisation, nucleation and growth of crystal.