Engineering Materials and Metallurgy
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The official GTU curriculum for Engineering Materials and Metallurgy (subject code 2133403) as prescribed for Manufacturing · Semester 3 divides the course into 5 units, covering 24 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 (2133403)Unit 1 Constitution Of Alloys And Phase Diagrams
- Constitution of alloys – Solid solutions
- substitutional and interstitials – Phase diagrams and microstructure development: Isomorphous
- Eutectoid and peritectroid alloy systems
- Iron-Iron carbide equilibrium diagram
- Development of microstructures in Iron- carbon alloys
Unit 2 Heat Treatment
- Full annealing-stress relief
- Recrystalisation- Spheroidizing
- Hardening and tempering of steel
- Isothermal transformation diagrams- TTT– CCT cooling curves - Hardenability
- Jominy end quench test – Austempering
- martempering – case hardening
- carbonotriding – flame and induction hardening – vacuum and plasma hardening – current trends- thermo-mechanical treatments- elementary ideas on sintering
Unit 3 Ferrous And Non Ferrous Metals
- Effect of alloying additions on steel (Mn, Si, Cr, Mo, V, Ti & W)- classification of steels ( tool steel
- stainless)– cast irons – alloy cast irons- Copper and Copper alloys –Aluminum and its alloys- Magnesium and its alloys– Titanium and its alloys- Nickel and Cobalt alloys
- properties and applications of these materials
Unit 4 Non-Metallic Materials
- properties and applications: Polymers – Commodity Plastics
- Engineering Plastics
- Specialty Plastics – Thermosetting Plastics – Bio-Degradable Plastics
- Ceramics and Composites– Super conductors- nanomaterials and their properties
Unit 5 Mechanical Properties And Testing
- Crystal imperfections- Dislocations- Strengthening mechanisms- Elastic
- anelastic and viscoelastic behaviour – modulus of elasticity- plastic deformation- Mechancial tests- tension
- hardness- effect of temperature
- grain size
- solutes and precipitates on dislocation dynamics – Mechancism of Fracture - mechanism of creep-creep resistant materials- creep tests- fracture toughness ductile- brittle transition –deformation mechanism maps- fatigue fracture-fatigue test