Characterization of Materials detailed syllabus for Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the MSE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Materials Science & Engineering 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MSE 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of characterization of materials is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
METALLOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES 9 Macro examination -applications, metallurgical microscope – construction and principle of working, specimen preparation, light material interaction – Rayleigh Scattering, Abbes theory; magnification, numerical aperture, resolving power, depth of focus, depth of field, different light sources; lenses aberrations and their remedial measures, Principles of microscopy -bright field , dark field, phasecontrast, polarization, differential interference contrast, high temperature microscopy; Quantitative metallography – Image analysis for grain size distribution and grain/precipitate shape.
Unit II
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Unit III
ANALYSIS OF X-RAY DIFFRACTION 9 Line broadening-crystallite size, residual stress; Texture Analysis; Crystal structure determinationindexing -Phase identification- ASTM catalogue of Materials identification, quantitative phase estimation, Phase diagram determination, Precise lattice parameter calculation, Determination of residual stress – double angle diffraction.
Unit IV
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Unit V
SURFACE ANALYSIS 9 X-ray emission spectroscopy – Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy- Wave Dispersive SpectroscopyUltraviolet Photo Electron Spectroscopy (UPS), X ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), Electron Energy Analysers, Secondary ion mass spectrometry -Quadrupole mass spectrometer ; Surface Structure -Unit meshes of five types of surface nets – diffraction from diperiodic structures – Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED)- Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction (RHEED).
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Angelo, P.C., Materials Characterisation, 1st Edition Cengage Publication, 2016.
- Cullity, B. D., Stock, S.R. Elements of X-ray diffraction, Pearson New International Edition, 3rd Edition, 2014
Reference Books:
- Brandon D. G, Modern Techniques in Metallography, Von Nostrand Inc. NJ, USA, 1986.
- D. A. Skoog, F. James Leary and T. A. Nieman, Principles of Instrumental Analysis, 7th edition, Cengage Learning, 2017.
- Thomas G., Transmission electron microscopy of metals, John Wiley, 1996.
- Whan R E (Ed), ASM Handbook, Volume 10, Materials Characterisation , Nineth Edition, ASM international, USA, 1986.
- Yang Leng, Materials Characterization: Introduction to Microscopic and Spectroscopic Methods, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd. 2010.
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