The following topics will be covered on Exam #3.
| Mechanical Properties |
Elastic modulus
Yield stress (yield strength) UTS Ductility Hardness Toughness Fatigue Creep |
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Understanding what these are and how they might affect the choice of material for an application |
| Phase Equlilbria (Phase Diagrams) |
Components
Phases Compositions Weight percentages Lever rule Solid Solutions Liquidus, Solidus, Eutectic Microstructures |
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How to extract information from a binary phase diagram |
| Steel | Fe-C phase diagram
Heat treatments |
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- phases present
- resulting microstructures and properties |
| Ceramics | Crystal structures
General properties |
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Where ceramics might be used
(based on properties) |
| Polymers | Nomenclature
Molecular structures General Properties |
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(including stress-strain curve) |
| Corrosion | Types (Mechanisms)
emf series (Table 18.1) Galvanic series (Table 18.2) |
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how to use these to determine if corrosion will occur, and if corrosion does occur, the corrosion reaction |
| X-ray Diffraction Microscopy |
Bragg equation
X-ray generation Atomic interaction |