MECH 3530 Advanced Engineering Materials
Course Description: Both traditional and recently developed materials and processes, including material properties and how they change, extraction of metals, selection, application and processing of materials. Composite materials and their processing, plastics and protection of materials against corrosion. Prerequisites: MECH2322 3 Course Credits, 2-Classroom Hours, and 2 Lab Hours
Required Text: Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction, 9th Ed. William D Callister Jr., David G. Rethwisch ISBN: 978-1-118-32457-Enginee
References: Introduction to materials Science for Engineers, 4th Edition James F. Shackelford ISBN 0-02-409730-6 Macmillan publishing company, 1988
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
ASSESSMENT
Evaluation Methods and Criteria: Students will exhibit skills in class, labs, and all homework assignments, laboratory exercises, quizzes, exams, and design project. For the successful completion of this course, the students should:
1- Understand the properties of metals and how they change by different processes such as heat treatment
Evaluation: Students will be able to describe the behavior of metals in terms of their mechanical and physical properties as well as the testing methods about extraction of metallic and nonmetallic materials.
2- Learn how to select materials for different applications.
Evaluation:
Students will be able to identify many metals and alloys by their numerical classification systems, and state some of the methods and factors that involved in selecting materials for manufacturing purposes.
3- Know about different processing of metals, plastics and composites
Evaluation: Students will learn how to identify common methods of processing plastics and composites and describe in general terms.
4- Ability to identify different methods for protection of materials against corrosion. Evaluation: Students will be able to discuss the causes of corrosion and explain how corrosion may be slowed or prevented.
GRADING PROCEDURES: 15% Laboratory projects. 35% Homework assignments, 25% Midterm exam. 25 % Final exam
Course Outline:
Week 1 : The atomic structure of different types of materials.
Week 2 : The structure of and imperfections of different types of solids.
Week 3 :Diffusion and mechanical properties of metals.
Week 4 :Dislocations and Strengthening Mechanisms, Failure
Week 5 : Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations. Development of Microstructure and Alteration of Mechanical Properties
Week 6 : Applications and Processing of Metal Alloys, Ceramics
Week 7 : Structures, Properties, Applications, and Processing of Ceramics
Week 8 Mid Term
Week 9 : Characteristics, Applications, and Processing of Polymers.
Week 10 : Composites, Corrosion and Degradation of Materials.
Week 11 : Electrical Properties, Thermal Properties
Week 12 : Magnetic Properties, Optical Properties
Week 13 : Economic, Environmental, and Societal issues in Materials Science and Engineering
Week 14 : Final Exam
