Material Science and Engineering
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Material Science and Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Material Science and Engineering (subject code 3150508) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 5 divides the course into 8 units, covering 41 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3150508)Unit 1 Introduction
- Classification of Engineering Materials
- Levels of Structure
- Structure– Property Relationships in Materials
Unit 2 Atomic structure & Chemical bonding
- Quantum states
- Ionization Potential
- Electron Affinity and Electronegativity
- Types of chemical bonds- Ionic
- metallic and secondary bonding
- Bond Energy
- Bond Type and Bond Length
Unit 3 Structure of solids
- The Crystalline and the Noncrystalline States
- ionic solid
- covalent solids
- metals and alloys
- Classification of Polymers
- Structure of Long Chain Polymers
Unit 4 Crystal defects
- Point Imperfections
- The Geometry of Dislocations
- Other Properties of Dislocations
- Surface Imperfections
Unit 5 Phase rule
- Single-component Systems
- Binary Phase Diagrams
- Some Typical Phase Diagrams and applications
- phase transfornmation
- nucleation and growth
- transformations in steel
- precipitation process
- solidification and crystallization
- glass transition
Unit 6 Plastic deformation and creep in crystalline materials
- The Tensile Stress-Strain Curve
- Plastic Deformation by Slip
- The Shear Strength of Perfect and Real Crystals
- The Effect of Temperature on the Stress to Move a Dislocation
- mechanism of creep and creep resistant materials
Unit 7 Oxidation and corrosion
- Mechanisms of Oxidation
- Oxidation Resistant Materials
- The Principles of Corrosion
- Protection against Corrosion
Unit 8 Conductors, resistors and semiconductor materials, resistivity range, free electron
- superconducting materials
- intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors
- fabrication of 7 Subject Code: 3150508 w.e.f