Objectives

This compulsory course is designed to give the undergraduate students a broad understanding of common materials related to mechanical engineering with an emphasis on the fundamentals of structure-property-application relationships in metals, polymers, and ceramics. The course will also introduce the students to a few advanced materials in engineering applications. Essentially, this course will lay the foundation for all courses in Mechanical Engineering.

Course content

Introduction to Materials, Materials Testing and Properties, Mechanical Properties of Materials, Material Selection for Mechanical Design, Crystal Structures, Metals and Metallic Alloys, High strength and High temperature Superalloys, Engineering Ceramics, Polymers, Composite Materials: Polymeric, Ceramic and Metal Matrix Composites, Smart Materials.

Total number of lectures: 26

Lecturewise breakup

1. Material Structure: 6 Lectures

• Atoms and atomic bonds

• Defects

• Crystalline and amorphous materials

• Characterization

2. Mechanical Behaviour of Materials: 8 Lectures

• Stress and strain (tensile test)

• Hardness

• Hardening of materials

• Fracture

• Fatigue

• Creep and relaxation

3. Classes of Materials: 10 Lectures

• Metals and alloys (altering physical properties and phase diagrams)

• Polymers and Composites

• Ceramics

• Functional and emerging materials

4. Special topics: 2 Lectures

• Thermal properties

• Optical properties

• Reynolds transport theorem

Recommended books

Textbooks

1. Materials Science and Engineering: An introduction, William D. Callister, John Wiley and Sons

2. Engineering Materials 1: An Introduction to Properties, Applications and Design Michael F. Ashby, Elsevier

Reference Books

1. Mechanical Metallurgy, George E. Dieter, McGraw-Hill

2. Materials Science and Engineering, V. Raghavan, Prentice Hall

Proposing instructors: C. Chandraprakash, Manjesh K. Singh, Ushasi Roy, and Bishakh Bhattacharya