Heat Treatment of Metals and Alloys 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
TRANSFORMATIONS IN STEELS 9 Allotropic changes in Iron, Iron-Iron carbide equilibrium diagram – transformations on heating and cooling – influence of alloying elements – general principles of heat treatment of steels – isothermal and continuous cooling transformations in steels – Time-Temperature-Transformation curves (TTT-diagrams), continuous cooling transformations – CCT-diagrams- effect of alloying additions on TTT diagrams, mechanism and kinetics of pearlitic, bainitic and martensitic transformations – habit plane – Bain distortion model
Unit II
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Unit III
CASE HARDENING 9 Introduction, carburisation – principle – carbon potential – mechanism – application of Ficks lawdepth of carburisation and its control – methods of carburising – heat treatment after carburizing -structure, properties and defects in carburising, nitriding – mechanism — effect of microstructure -nitriding methods, ion-nitriding and nitro-carburising, boronising, chromising, cyaniding and carbonitriding, induction and flame hardening, Laser and Electron beam welding – principles -methods – operating variables, measurement of case depth.
Unit IV
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Unit V
HEAT TREATMENT OF SPECIFIC ALLOYS 9 Heat treatment of special purpose steels – tool steels, high speed steels, maraging steels, HSLA steels and die steels, heat treatment of cast irons – gray cast irons, white cast irons and S.G. irons, austempering of S.G. Iron, heat treatment of non-ferrous alloys – aluminium alloys, copper alloys, nickel alloys and titanium alloys, defects in heat treated parts – causes and remedies.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Rajan, T. V., Sharma, C. P., Ashok Sharma., Heat Treatment Principles and Techniques Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2011
- Vijendra Singh, Heat Treatment of Metals, Second edition, Standard Publishers Distributors New Delhi, 2012.
Reference Books:
- ASM Hand book Heat Treating, Vol.4., ASM International, 1999.
- I. Novikov, Theory of Heat Treatment of Metals, MIR Publishers, Moscow, 1978
- Prabhudev. K. H. Handbook of Heat Treatment of Steels, Tata McGraw-Hill, Publishing Co., New Delhi, 1988.
- Sydney H. Avner, Introduction to Physical Metallurgy, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 1997.
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