MF4013 Materials Testing and Characterization Techniques Syllabus:

MF4013 Materials Testing and Characterization Techniques Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVE:

(1) Make them acquainted with microscopic techniques to analyse crystal structures
(2) Acquire an understanding on the electron microscopic techniques for characterization
(3) Gain a fundamental on chemical and thermal analysis
(4) Provide the knowledge on various static methods to characterize materials
(5) Study the failure of materials under stress

UNIT I MICRO AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

Principles of Optical Microscopy – Specimen Preparation Techniques – Polishing and Etching – Polarization Techniques – Quantitative Metallography – Estimation of grain size – ASTM grain size numbers – Microstructure of Engineering Materials – Elements of Crystallography – X- ray Diffraction – Bragg’s law – Techniques of X-ray Crystallography – Debye – Scherer camera – Geiger Diffractometer – analysis of Diffraction patterns – Inter planer spacing – Identification of Crystal Structure, Elements of Electron Diffraction.

UNIT II ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

Interaction of Electron Beam with Materials – Transmission Electron Microscopy – Specimen Preparation – Imaging Techniques – BF & DF – SAD – Electron Probe Microanalysis – Scanning Electron Microscopy – Construction & working of SEM – various Imaging Techniques – Applications Atomic Force Microscopy- Construction & working of AFM – Applications.

UNIT III CHEMICAL AND THERMAL ANALYSIS

Basic Principles, Practice and Applications of X-Ray Spectrometry, Wave Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometry, Auger Spectroscopy, Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectroscopy (FTIR)- Proton Induced X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy, Differential Thermal Analysis, Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) And Thermo Gravity metric Analysis (TGA)

UNIT IV MECHANICAL TESTING – STATIC TESTS

Hardness – Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell and Micro Hardness Test – Tensile Test – Stress – Strain plot – Proof Stress – Torsion Test – Ductility Measurement – Impact Test – Charpy & Izod – DWTT – Fracture Toughness Test, Codes and standards for testing metallic and composite materials.

UNIT V MECHANICAL TESTING – DYNAMIC TESTS

Fatigue – Low & High Cycle Fatigues – Rotating Beam & Plate Bending HCF tests – S-N curve – LCF tests – Crack Growth studies – Creep Tests – LM parameters – AE Tests-modal analysis – Applications of Dynamic Tests.

OUTCOMES:

1) At the end of this course the students are expected
2) to be knowledgeable in microstructure evaluation, crystal structure analysis,
3) to take images in electron microscopy and process those images,
4) to do Chemical Thermal Analysis,
5) Analyse the results of static and dynamic mechanical testing.

REFERENCES:

1. ASM Hand book-Materials characterization, Vol – 10, 2004.
2. Culity B.D., Stock S.R& Stock S., Elements of X ray Diffraction, (3rd Edition). Prentice Hall, 2001.
3. Davis J. R., Tensile Testing, 2nd Edition, ASM International, 2004.
4. Davis, H.E., Hauck G. & Troxell G.E., The Testing of engineering Materials, (4th Edition), McGraw Hill, College Divn., 1982.
5. Dieter G.E., Mechanical Metallurgy, (3rd Edition), ISBN: 0070168938, McGraw Hill, 1988.
6. Goldsten,I.J., Dale.E., Echin.N.P.& Joy D.C., Scanning Electron Microscopy & X ray- Micro Analysis, (2nd Edition), ISBN – 0306441756, Plenum Publishing Corp., 2000.
7. Grundy P.J. and Jones G.A., Electron Microscopy in the Study of Materials, Edward Arnold Limited, 1976.
8. Morita.S, Wiesendanger.R, and Meyer.E, “Non-contact Atomic Force Microscopy” Springer, 2002,
9. Newby J., Metals Hand Book- Metallography & Micro Structures, (9th Edition), ASM International, 1989.
10. Suryanarayana A. V. K., Testing of metallic materials, (2nd Edition), BS publications, 2007.