Advance Physical Metallurgy
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Advance Physical Metallurgy Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Advance Physical Metallurgy (subject code 3342104) as prescribed for Rubber · Semester 4 divides the course into 5 units, covering 19 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 (3342104)Unit 1 Introduction to Metals & Alloys
- 1.1. Metals, Alloys and their structural constituents, systems & phases.
- 1.2. Thermodynamic consideration of phase transformations.
- 1.3. Equilibrium diagrams & cooling curves.
- 1.4. Types of systems.
Unit 2 Iron-Carbon Equilibrium Diagram
- 2.1. Introduction of Iron-Carbon Equilibrium Diagram.
- 2.2. Critical points & invariant points / allotropic forms.
- 2.3. Definitions of related Phases & micro constituents and their effect on mechanical properties.
- 2.4. Transformations in steel and cast iron with various carbon percentages.
Unit 3 Physical Metallurgy of Ferrous Metals and Alloys
- 3.1. Definition and Classification of Steel and Cast Iron
- 3.2. Relationship between Carbon, microstructure and mechanical properties.
- 3.3. Application and Limitations of plain carbon steels.
- 3.4. Types of cast iron with respect to composition, microstructure, properties and application.
Unit 4 Physical Metallurgy of High Alloy steels
- 4.1. Classification of tool steels.
- 4.2. High speed tool steels(HSS) classification, composition and applications.
- 4.3. Classification of stainless steels.
- 4.4. Types of stainless steel with reference to composition, microstructure, properties, and application.
Unit 5 Physical Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals and Alloys
- 5.1. Copper and its alloys: Binary equilibrium diagram of Cu- Zn, Cu- Sn, Composition, properties, uses and microstructure.
- 5.2. Aluminium and its alloys: Binary equilibrium diagram of Al-Si, Al –Cu, Al- Mg, Composition, properties, uses and Microstructure.
- 5.3. White bearing metal: Composition, properties, uses and Microstructure. Advance Physical Metallurgy Course code: 3342104 GTU/NITTTR/Bhopal/13-14 Gujarat State 3
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