MSE305: Materials Processing
Course Description
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the fundamentals involved
in the processing of materials. Various materials processes are used in variety of industries
to create and form materials for wide range of applications. There are some commonali ties
behind all these processes and the aim of this course is to go through these fundamental
physics and materials science behind these processes so as to be able to understand, design
and predict the outcome of these methods. At the end of this course, students should be
able to answer the following questions: (a) What are the various fundamental material
processing techniques and the science behind it; (b) What processing method to use for a
given material and a given application.
Course Content
Solidification Processing (Introduction to solidification, casting, welding, mold, feeder
and riser design, Fluidity Considerations, Heat Flow, Composition Variation, Cellular
Solidification, Plane front solidification, Casting defects)
Mechanical Working (Intro to metal working, Basics of continuum mechanics, Plastic
Instability, Superplasticity, Workability, Mechanics of Metal working, Rolling, Forging,
Extrusion, Friction and Formability)
Metal and Ceramic Powder Processing (Powder production and Characterization,
Powder Compaction, Solid State Sintering)
Thin-film and Coating Techniques (Intro to Vacuum Technology, Physical Vapor
Deposition Process, Chemical deposition, Plasma Spray Coating)
