Syllabus

Material Science Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme (Open Elective-1)

Material Science detail syllabus for various departments, 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17EI562), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

For all other open elective-1 syllabus for vtu be 2017 scheme you can visit Open Elective-1 syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme Subjects. The detail syllabus for material science is as follows.

Module 1

Crystallography: Forces between atoms, bonding in solids, ionic, covalent and metallic bonding; Fundamental concepts of crystals, lattice points and space lattice, crystal systems, Bravais lattices, directions, planes and Miller indices, atomic packing fraction, structure of simple cubic, body centered cubic (CsCl), face centered cubic (NaCl), hexagonal closed packed (HCP), diamond structure; X-ray diffraction, Bragg’s law.

Module 2

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Module 3

Crystal Imperfections: Point defects, vacancies and self-interstitials, impurities in solids, dislocations, linear defects, interfacial defects, bulk or volume defects edge and screw dislocation. Mechanical Behaviour: Elastic behaviour of metals, stress-strain relation, Hooke’s law, atomic model of elastic behaviour, plasticity, ductile and brittle materials, tensile strength, hardness, fatigue, creep, fracture, types of fracture.

Module 4

Diffusion and Phase Transformation in Solids: Fick’s laws of diffusion, experimental determination of diffusion coefficient, Kirkendall effect, atomic model of diffusion. Time scale of phase changes, nucleation and growth, nucleation kinetics, applications, solidification and crystallization, glass transition.

Module 5

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Course Outcomes:

After studying this course, students will able to;

  1. Explain fundamental concepts of crystal and crystal structure with examples.
  2. Describe the principle and working of different instrumentation techniques for the characterization of crystals and materials.
  3. Analyze the crystal Imperfections and mechanical behaviour of materials.
  4. Discuss the concepts and experimentations in the areas of diffusion and phase transformation in solids
  5. Discuss the basic concepts of Nanoscience and nano-materials with emphasis on applications in different fields, challenges, safety and societal implications

Question paper pattern:

  • The question paper will have TEN questions.
  • Each full question carry16marks
  • There will be TWO full questions (with maximum of THREE sub questions) from each module.
  • Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
  • The students will have to answer FIVE full questions, selecting ONE full question from each module.

Text Books:

  1. V. Raghavan, Materials Science and Engineering: A First Course, Prentice Hall of India, 2007.
  2. Charles P. Poole, Frank J. Owens, Introduction to Nanotechnology, John Wiley and Sons, 2007.

Reference Books:

  1. S. O. Pillai, Solid State Physics, New Age International, 2008.
  2. M. Arumugam, Materials Science, Anuradha Agencies, Kumbhakonam, 2007.
  3. RakeshRathi, Nanotechnology: Technology Revolution of 21st Century, S. Chand, 2009.

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