Engineering Materials & Metallurgy syllabus

Crystal Structures: Introduction to crystal structure, Miller indices, Crystal imperfections, and Diffusion Mechanisms, introduction to Material Properties, Destructive Testing: Impact test, Cupping test, Non- Destructive Testing: Eddy current test, Sonic, Ultrasonic testing, X-ray Radiography testing (Principle and Applications only) Microscopic Techniques: Sample Preparation and etching procedure, optical microscopy, Electronic microscopy - only SEM, TEM and X-ray diffraction (Principle and Applications only) Macroscopy: Sulphur printing, flow line observation, spark test

Solid solutions: Introduction, Types, Humerothery rule for substitutional solid solutions Solidification: Nucleation, crystal growth, solidification of pure metals and alloys. Phase Diagrams: Cooling curves, types of phase diagrams, Gibbs phase rules Iron-Carbon Diagram: Iron-carbon equilibrium diagrams in detail with emphasis in the invariant reactions.

Austenite transformation in steel: Time temperature transformation diagrams, continuous cooling transformation diagrams. Retained austenite and its effect, Steps in Heat Treatment and Cooling Medium, Heat Treatment Processes: Introduction, Annealing (Full annealing, Process annealing, Spheroidise annealing, isothermal annealing, stress relief annealing), Normalizing, Hardening, Tempering, Austempering, Martempering, Sub-Zero Treatment, Hardenability Surface Hardening: Classification, Flame hardening, Induction hardening, Carburizing, Nitriding, Carbonitriding

Carbon Steel: Classification, types & their composition, properties and Industrial application Alloy Steels: Classification of alloy steels & Effect of alloying elements, examples of alloy steels, (Stainless steel, Tool steel) sensitization of stainless steel ,Designation of carbon steel and alloy steels as per IS, AISI, SAE Standards Cast Iron: Classification, types; their composition, properties and Industrial application of (White CI, Gray CI, SG CI, Malleable Cast and alloy Cast Iron) Microstructure and property relationship of various ferrous Materials

Classification of Non-Ferrous Metals: Study of Non-ferrous alloys with Designation, Composition, Microstructure. Mechanical & other properties for Industrial Applications: Copper and its Alloys (Gilding Metal, Cartridge Brass, Muntz Metal, Tin Bronze, Beryllium Bronze), Aluminium and its Alloy (LM5, Duralumin, Y-Alloy, Hinduminum), Nickel and its Alloys (Invar, Inconel), Titanium and its Alloys (Classification, lead based alloys, tin based alloys), Age Hardening. Microstructure and Property relationship of various Non-ferrous Materials. Recent Material used in Additive Manufacturing: Properties, Composition and Application only