Mechanical Behavior 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.
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Course Objectives:
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Unit I
ELASTIC AND PLASTIC BEHAVIOUR 9 Elastic behaviour of materials – Hookes law, plastic behaviour: dislocation theory, Types of dislocations-Burgers vectors and dislocation loops, dislocations in the FCC, HCP and BCC lattice, stress fields and energies of dislocations, forces on and between dislocations, dislocation climb, intersections of dislocations, Jogs, dislocation sources, multiplication of dislocations, dislocation pile-ups, Slip and twinning. Methods of observing dislocations
Unit II
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Unit III
FRACTURE AND FRACTURE MECHANICS 9 Types of fracture, Basic mechanisms of ductile and brittle fracture, Griffiths theory of brittle fracture, Orowans modification. Izod and Charpy Impacts tests, Ductile to Brittle Transition Temperature (DBTT), Factors affecting DBTT, Determination of DBTT. Fracture mechanics-Introduction, Modes of fracture, Stress intensity factor, Fracture toughness and Determination of KIC.
Unit IV
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Unit V
CREEP BEHAVIOUR AND TESTING 9 Creep curve, Stages in creep curve and explanation, Structural changes during creep, Creep mechanisms, Metallurgical factors affecting creep, High temperature alloys, Stress rupture testing, Creep testing machines, creep life prediction-Omega (Damage rate) method, Larson-Miller (parametric) method. Deformation Mechanism Maps according to Frost/Ashby, Super plasticity.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Dieter, G. E., Mechanical Metallurgy, McGraw-Hill Co., SI Edition, 1995
- Thomas H. Courtney, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Waveland Press, 2nd edition, 2005
Reference Books:
- Bhargava A K & Sharma C P, Mechanical behaviour and Testing of materials PHI learning 2011.
- Norman E Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Pearson 2013.
- Prashant Kumar, Elements of Fracture Mechanics, McGraw-Hill, 2009.
- Shetty M N, Dislocations and mechanical behaviour of materials, PHI learning 2013.
- William Hosford., Mechanical behaviour of Materials, Cambridge University press, 2010.
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