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MSE-234: Mechanical behaviour of materials

Lectures in this course (52)

Materials Testing: Basics and Measurement Errors

Introduces material classes, measurement errors, laboratory practices, and group work dynamics.

Mechanical Tests: Yield Surface and Necking

Explores the yield surface concept, necking phenomenon in metallic materials, and stress-strain curve implications.

Metals and Alloys: Properties and Production

Covers stress-strain curves, specific moduli, and energy footprint of metals production.

Ceramics: Thermal Shock Resistance and Forming Processes

Covers ceramics' thermal shock resistance, aluminum forming processes, consumption trends, capillarity, and phase transformations kinetics.

Structural Hardening in Al-Cu System

Explores structural hardening in the Al-Cu system through precipitate formation, growth kinetics, and dislocation movement.

Aluminum Alloys: Microstructures and Mechanical Properties

Covers the impact of oil prices on aluminum consumption, silicon properties in alloys, energy requirements for production, and aluminum alloy classification.

Aluminum Alloys Overview

Covers the composition, properties, and applications of aluminum alloys, including mechanical properties of heat-treatable and work-hardened alloys, and structural light alloys like aluminum, magnesium, and titanium.

Copper Alloys: Properties and Applications

Explores the properties and applications of copper alloys, including conductivity, stability, structural hardening, and the characteristics of bronzes and brasses.

Metals and Alloys: Transformations and Properties

Explores the kinetics and properties of metals and alloys, emphasizing phase transitions and hardening mechanisms.

Martensitic Transformation: Metals and Alloys

Explores the martensitic transformation in metals and alloys, emphasizing the role of carbon atoms and contrasting with diffusive transformations.

Metals and Alloys: Microstructures and Transformations

Explores metals and alloys, focusing on microstructures, transformations, energy footprints, and extraction processes.

Phase Transformations in Alloys

Explores phase transformations in metals and alloys, discussing kinetics, structural hardening, and dislocation movement obstacles.

Mechanical Tests: Creep and Fracture Mechanics

Explores creep tests, deformation, and fracture mechanics in mechanical tests.

Metallurgical Processes: Hardening and Maturation

Explores metallurgical hardening processes and microstructure evolution in metals and alloys through heat treatment.

Metallurgy Fundamentals

Covers the fundamentals of metallurgy, including world reserves of metals, shaping processes, heat treatments, and steel properties.

Metals and Alloys: Fe-C System

Explores the equilibrium phase diagram of the Fe-C system and the structures formed in steels and cast irons.

Polymers: Structure and Properties

Explores the classification, molecular structures, mechanical behavior, and viscoelastic properties of polymers, emphasizing temperature effects and material responses.

Polymer Plasticity: Yield Stress and Deformation Mechanisms

Explores polymer plasticity, including yield stress, deformation mechanisms, and the role of temperature and molecular structure.

Deformation and Creep in Materials

Explores deformation, creep, material properties, mechanical tests, ceramics, polymers, metals, and atomic bonds.

Clay Minerals: Formation and Properties

Explores the chemical formulas and properties of clay minerals, the shaping techniques of clay, and the manufacturing process of glasses.