ME 221 – Structural Materials (Section S2)

Instructor: Alankar Alankar

Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Office S23, Ph. No. 9356, Email: alankar.alankar@iitb.ac.in
https://www.me.iitb.ac.in/~alankar/

Content

1. Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering [4 h]

1.1. The composition- processing- microstructure- properties- performance pyramid
1.2. The hierarchy of microstructures
1.3. Metals and alloys, ceramics, polymers and composites
2. Atomic scale structure in solids [7 h]
2.1. Crystalline and amorphous phases
2.2. Crystal structure, structural defects, texture (as applicable to metals, ceramics and polymers)
2.3. Atomistic origin of properties and anisotropy
2.3.1. Elastic properties
2.3.2. Plastic properties (slip and twinning)
2.3.3. Strengthening and softening mechanisms
3. Micro scale structure in solids [8h]
3.1. Thermodynamic equilibrium structures: Phase diagrams and phase transformations
3.2. Development of structure due to solidification
3.3. Development of structure due to thermo-mechanical working
3.4. Thermo-mechanical simulator for high temperature mechanical behavior, property anisotropy
4. Microstructure-Properties-Performance linkage: [6 h]
4.1. Tension and compression properties
4.2. Hardness
4.3. Fracture toughness
4.4. Fatigue
4.5. Creep
4.6. Corrosion
5. Important engineering Materials: In this section, various materials will be taught describing the broad
spectrum in each class and principles of material development (structure-property relations) relevant
to the particular class [8 h]
5.1. Steels:
5.1.1. Banana diagram and broad classification
5.1.2. Various constituent phases
5.1.3. Example of one advanced steel
5.2. Aluminum alloys:
5.2.1. Cast and wrought alloys
5.2.2. Example of Al-Si cast alloy with grain refiners and modifiers
 5.3. Cu-, Ti- Ni based alloys
5.4. Fiber reinforced plastic composites: GFRP and CFRP
6. Experimental and modeling advances in Materials Science [5 h]
6.1. Microstructural and other analytical characterization: optical, SEM/ EBSD, TEM, 3DCT, DSC
6.2. Processing modeling: principles, software tools, examples (solidification, deformation)
7. Computational materials science: principles, software tools, examples, ending with ICME

Content

1. There will be a 30 min tutorial on every Friday. This will begin as soon as analytical problems start
showing up. TAs will be available.
2. There may be upto 4 homeworks.
3. Laptops will be required for most tutorial session.

Text books:

1. W D Callister, Materials Science and Engineering, An Introduction (Wiley Publication)

2. David R Askeland and Pradip P Phule, The science and Engineering of Materials (Cengage
Learning), Physical Principles of Electron Microscopy: An Introduction to TEM, SEM, and AEM,
Springer, 1st ed. 2005R
3. Mechanical Metallurgy, George E Dieter, McGraw Hill, 2017

Reference Books:

1. Basic Engineering Plasticity: An introduction with engineering and manufacturing applications.,

David Rees, 2006
2. Metal Forming, Mechanics and Metallurgy, William F. Hosford and Robert M. Caddell, Cambridge,
2007

TAs:

1. Sumit Kumar Maurya: sumitmatsc@gmail.com

2. Ashish Mishra: ashishmishra023@gmail.com

3. Bharat: bvss89@gmail.com

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