Physical Metallurgy
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The official GTU curriculum for Physical Metallurgy (subject code 2152106) as prescribed for Metallurgy · Semester 5 divides the course into 4 units, covering 37 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 (2152106)Unit 1 Introduction
- Introduction to phys met, Crystal and crystal systems
- miller indices planes and direction
Unit 2 Solidification of Metals & Alloys
- Nucleation and growth phenomena
- Constitutional supercooling
- Eutectic solidification
- Rules of formation of various types of solid solutions
- Primary & Intermediate phases and their formation
- Intermetallic compounds
Unit 3 Phase Diagram
- Concepts of alloy system and explanation of terms like system
- micro constituent and degree of freedom
- structural constituent of an alloy
- phase rule and phase equilibria
- equilibrium diagrams and their classification based on solubility of components in liquid and solid states
- cooling curves
- morphology and distribution of phases
- effect of nonequilibrium cooling on morphology
- eutectoid and peritectoid reactions
- binary equilibrium diagrams involving isomorphous systems and various reactions
- common binary systems viz
- Lever rule
- Ternary diagrams of simple systems
- Analytical problems for this unit
Unit 4 Iron-Carbon system
- Allotropic changes
- Iron-Iron carbide equilibrium diagram
- Invariant reactions
- Critical temperatures
- Plain carbon steels
- Slow cooling of steels
- Effect of alloying elements
- Effect of impurities
- Property variation with microstructure
- Classification of steels
- Specification of steels
- Physical significance of grain size: Grain size effects
- Grain size designation
- Grain size measurement
- Corresponding standards
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