Plastic Deformation of Metals
Get the full GTU study material, English & Gujarati textbook PDFs, syllabus curriculum, and solved previous year question papers.
English Book & Chapters
English Book Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesGTU Previous Year Papers
Plastic Deformation of Metals Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Plastic Deformation of Metals (subject code 2142106) as prescribed for Metallurgy · Semester 4 divides the course into 6 units, covering 34 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 (2142106)Unit 1 Elastic and Plastic Deformation
- Elastic and plastic deformation of metallic materials
- yield phenomena for ductile
- Ductile vs brittle behaviour
- Mohr's circle
- Yielding criterion
- Von-Mises and Maximum-shear- stress/Tresca yielding criterion
- Failure criteria under combined stresses
Unit 2 Plastic deformation of single crystals
- Lattice defects
- Crystal Imperfection: Point defect
- line defect & surface defects
- Slip phenomena
- slip systems
- Slip by dislocation movement
- concept of critical resolved shear stress
- Twinning as mode of deformation
- Stacking faults
- Strain hardening of single crystal
Unit 3 Plastic deformation of poly crystalline material. Grain boundaries &
- strengthening from grain boundaries
- strain hardening of poly crystalline materials
- Strengthening Mechanism of metals
Unit 4 Dislocation theory
- Burger vector and dislocation loop
- Dislocation in FCC (Including formation of Stacking faults) BCC & HCP, stress field of dislocations
- forces on dislocation
- forces between dislocation motions of dislocations
- dislocation climb
- Jogs in dislocations
- Multiplication of dislocations-Frank Reed source
- Techniques of observation of dislocation
Unit 5 Annealing of cold worked metals, Recovery, Recrystallization and
- grain growth
Unit 6 Fracture behaviour of metals
- Types of fracture in metals
- theoretical cohesive strength of metals
- Griffith theory of brittle fracture
- Theory of ductile brittle transition temperature
- Concept of Fracture Mechanics
Study on Android App:
