Material Characterization
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The official GTU curriculum for Material Characterization (subject code DI04021061) 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 (DI04021061)Unit 1 Introduction to Material Characterization
- Introduction and importance of material characterization 1.2
- Classification of material characterization techniques
Unit 2 Optical Microscopy
- construction and working of metallurgical microscope 2.2
- Bright field and dark field illumination 2.3
- resolution and depth of focus and Numerical aperture 2.4
- Polarized light microscopy 2.5
- Color metallography
Unit 3 Electron Microscopy
- construction and working of scanning electron microscope (SEM) 3.2
- Interactions between electron beam and sample in SEM 3.3
- Applications and limitations of SEM 3.4 Principle
- construction and working of Transmission electron microscope (TEM) 3.5
- Interactions between electron beam and sample in TEM 3.6
- Applications and limitations of TEM
Unit 4 X-ray Diffraction
- 4.1X-ray generation
- continuous and characteristic spectrum 4.2
- Absorption of X-ray by matter and diffraction of X-ray – Bragg’s Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Metallurgy Engineering Subject Code: DI04021061 Subject Name: Material Characterization law 4.3 X-ray diffraction (XRD) methods 4.4 Application of X-ray diffraction (XRD) methods
Unit 5 Chemical Composition Analysis
- 4.1 Principle and working of Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) 4.2
- Applications and limitations of EDS 4.3.Principle and working of spark emission spectroscopy applications and limitations of spark emission spectroscopy 4.4
- Application of Positive Material Identification (PMI) using XRF (X ray fluorescence)