PR3005 Material Testing and Characterization Syllabus:
PR3005 Material Testing and Characterization Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
• To provide understanding of techniques of microstructure and crystal structure evaluation of materials.
• To introduce tools for analysis of microstructure and surface topography of materials.
• To understand the techniques of chemical and thermal analysis of materials.
• To gain knowledge in various static mechanical testing methods.
• To gain knowledge in various dynamic mechanical testing methods
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 Diffract meter – analysis of Diffraction patterns – Inter planer spacing – Identification of Crystal Structure, Elements of Electron Diffraction – Estimation of residual stress and grain size.
UNIT II ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Interaction of Electron Beam with Materials – Transmission Electron Microscopy – Specimen Preparation – Imaging Techniques – BF and DF – SAD – Electron Probe Microanalysis – Scanning Electron Microscopy – Construction and working of SEM and FESEM Back scattered and Secondary Electron Imaging Techniques – Applications- Atomic Force Microscopy- Construction and working of AFM – Contact and Non-Contact modes Applications.
UNIT III CHEMICAL AND THERMAL ANALYSIS
Basic Principles, Practice and Applications of X-Ray Spectrometry, Energy dispersive and 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 Calorimetric (DSC) And Thermo Gravity metric Analysis (TGA) – Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA)
UNIT IV MECHANICAL TESTING – STATIC TESTS
Hardness – Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell and Micro Hardness Test, Rebound hardness and Indentation– Tensile Test – Stress – Strain plot – Proof Stress – Torsion Test – Ductility Measurement – Impact Test – Charpy and Izod – DWTT – Fracture Toughness Test, Codes and standards for testing metallic and composite materials.
UNIT V MECHANICAL TESTING – DYNAMIC TESTS
Fatigue – Low and High Cycle Fatigues – Rotating Beam and Plate Bending HCF tests – S-N curve– LCF tests – Crack Growth studies – Creep Tests – LM parameters – AE Tests-modal analysis -Applications of Dynamic Tests – Fatigue life estimation.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
CO1: Understand the characterize of engineering materials through structure.
CO2: Know the fundamental principle of Top-notch characterization tools.
CO3: Ability to understand the chemical and thermal analysis for materials characterization.
CO4: Choose appropriate mechanical static testing methods.
CO5: Choose appropriate mechanical dynamic testing methods
TEXTBOOKS:
1. Angelo P C, Material characterization, Cengage Learning India, 2016.
2. Suryanarayana A. V. K., Testing of metallic materials, (2nd Edition), BS publications, 2007.
REFERENCES:
1. Cullity B.D., Stock S.R and Stock S., Elements of X Ray Diffraction, 3rdEdition. Prentice Hall,2018.
2. Skoog, Holler and Nieman, Principles of Instrumental Analysis, 7thedition, Cengage Learning, 2017.
3. Newby J., Metals Hand Book- Metallography & Micro Structures, (9th Edition), ASM International, 1989.
4. Suryanarayana C, Experimental Techniques in materials and Mechanics, CRC Press,1stEdition,2011.
5. Yang Leng, Materials Characterization: Introduction to Microscopic and Spectroscopic Methods, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, John Wiley and Sons (Asia)Pte Ltd., 2nd Edition, 2013.