| Lectures: 4 Periods/Week | Sessional Marks: 30 |
| University Exam: 3 Hours | University Examination Marks: 70 |
UNIT-I
Atomic structure and chemical bonding:
Structure of an atom, quantum states, periodic table, Ionization potential,
electron affinity and Electro negativity.
Chemical bonding:
Types of bonds, Ionic covalent, metallic and secondary bonding,
properties and bond characteristics.
Crystal geometry and structure determination geometry of crystals:
space lattices, crystal structures, miller indices of crystallographic phases
and directions, structure determination by x-ray diffraction,
Bragg law powder method.
Structures of solids and crystal imperfections:
crystalline and non crystalline solids, inorganic solids, ionic solids, metals and alloys, cubic systems packing efficiency and co-ordination number.
Crystal imperfections: point, line and surface imperfections.
UNIT-II
Phase diagrams and phase transformations:
Constitution of alloys, phase rule, single component systems, two component systems,
binary phase diagrams - tie line rule, lever rule, isomorphus, eutectic, eutectoid,
peritectic and peritectoid systems with examples. Non equilibrium cooling: coring,
Phase transformation, solidification and crystallization.
Metal shaping processes and their brief study:Rolling, forging, drawing, extrusion.
Strengthening of metals and alloys:
Grain refinement, solid solution strengthening, dispersion strengthening, strain
hardening and precipitation hardening.
Heat treatment of steels applied to the materials used in chemical industry:
Annealing, normalising, hardening and tempering.
UNIT-III
Elastic behavior of materials Plastic deformation:
Mechanism of slip and twinning. Creep: Mechanism and methods to reduce Creep in
materials.Fracture in ductile and brittle materials, Fatigue-Mechanism and preventive methods
Oxidation and corrosion:
Basic principle, types of corrosion, various combating methods.
UNIT-IV
Types of metals and alloys used in chemical process industry, Criteria of selection of
materials of construction in process industry.
Brief study of composite materials and stress-strain analysis
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