ME 511

Advanced Materials and Processing July-Nov 2011

(2-0-2-6)

Lectures: Two hours per week (Monday: 11-11.55 AM; wednesday: 9-9.55 am) Introduction of advanced materials and its manufacturing processes for engineering applications. 1) Deformation of metals: Properties: Elastic and plastic deformation, Mechanical behaviour, tensile deformation, formability, yield locus & theories, electrical, thermal and magnetic properties; forming processes & applications; Advances in automotive Steel and Aluminium materials, their formability and weldability 2) Advanced High strength steel: High strength steels; Ultra high strength steels; their properties, processing, formability and weldability; Automotive and aerospace Aluminium alloys: properties; processing; formability and weldability 3) Powder metallurgy: Basics of powder metallurgy processes and applications 4) Composite materials: Design and manufacturing of polymer matrix, metal matrix and ceramic matrix composites; Various forms and type of reinforcements, fillers and additives; Design of composites for structural, wear resistance and high temperature applications 5) Shape memory alloys (SMA): Shape memory effect and the metallurgical phenomenon of SMA; Temperature assisted shape memory effect; Visco-elastic behaviour, Magnetic shape memory effect; Various shape memory alloys; Manufacturing technology of SMAs 6) Polymer materials: Polymerisation; Plastics; High temperature polymers; Additive and compounding of plastics; Processing of plastics 7) Piezoelectric materials: Piezoelectric effect; Di-electric hysterisis; Piezoelectric constants; Piezoelectric charge constants; Dynamic behaviour of PZT transducers; Piezoelectric materials and manufacturing techniques (stability, poling and depolarisation) 8) Electro rheological (ER) and magneto-rheological (MR) materials: Introduction and Characteristics of ER and EM fluids, ER and EM materials 9) Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS): Introduction; Characteristics of silicon wafers and other materials for MEMS applications; Various manufacturing techniques of MEMS components 10) Materials for high temperature applications: Ni-Cr alloys, Ni base and Co based super alloys; Carbon-carbon composites; Diffusion bond coating of high temperature materials
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Seminar topics for ME 511 (Seminar duration: 1 hour) 1) Design of composites for wear resistance and tribology applications 2) Lightweight automotive materials: Materials, processing and related processes 3) Mechanical behaviour (creep, fatigue) of super alloys (Inconel etc.) at high temperature 4) Semiconductor materials: Fabrication and applications 5) Polymer coatings and applications 6) Hydroforming of tubes 7) Mechanical behaviour of High strength steel grade sheet material 8) Titanium alloys: Deformation behaviour and application in bio-medical sector 9) MEMS: Basics and applications in robotics and medicine fields 10) Materials for turbine blades: processing and mechanical behaviour 11) Friction stir welding of steel sheets 12) Nano materials and their applications 13) Micro forming Materials, Mechanical behaviour, and applications 14) Recent advances in aluminium alloy processing 15) High temperature shape memory alloys 16) Laser assisted friction stir welding of sheet materials 17) Mechanical properties of NiTi shape memory alloys 18) Forming of Adhesive bonded blanks 19) Materials issues in the processing, the operation and the reliability of MEMS 20) Piezoelectric actuators for structural control Tentative laboratory experiments for ME 511: Testing and evaluation of tensile properties of low carbon and mild steel, Upsetting experiments on aluminium and lead cylindrical billets, Ring compression testing on Al and lead materials, Microstructural characterisation of annealed mild steel sample and Aluminium reinforced with discontinuous carbon fibres, Experiments on Polymer processing by injection moulding press, Experiments on powder metallurgy Course evaluation plan Quiz 1 : Quiz 2 : Midsem exam : Endsem exam : Seminar/lab report: 10 % 15 % 20 % 40 % 15 % (Duration: 1 hour) (Duration: 1 hour) (Duration: 2 hours) (Duration: 3 hours) (Duration: 1 hour)