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Title of the course

MM 737: Physical Metallurgy

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Credit structure

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Pre-requisite, if any

None

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Course content

Crystal structures of metals and alloys, Defects ?? vacancies, dislocations, stacking faults, twins, grain boundaries, Interstitial and substitutional solid solutions, Solidification ?? Homogenous and heterogeneous nucleation, Precipitation ?? JMA growth kinetics, Recovery, recrystallization and grain growth, Case studies ?? Age hardenable Al-Cu alloys, Phase transformations in Fe-C etc.

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Texts/References

Reza Abbaschian, Lara Abbaschian, Robert E Reed-Hill, Physical Metallurgy Principles, FourthEdition, Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2008

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Instructor(s) name

Prof.?Kulkarni Ajit R.,M.P. Gururajan