UCL - Physical Chemistry of Metals and Ceramics

[MAPR2013]

[30h + 30h] 5 credits

This course is taught in the 1st semester.

Teacher(s): Francis Delannay, Pascal Jacques

Language: English

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

This course aims at completing the courses of the bachelor program devoted to chemistry and physical-chemistry in such a way that, at the end of the course, the student possesses the necessary bases for being confronted, in his professional life, to problems related to the production processes and properties of inorganic products : metals, ceramics, glasses.

Main themes

Three major themes are covered : non-metallic inorganic solids (ceramics and mineral glasses), physical metallurgy, processes for the production of the main industrial metals and alloys (steel, aluminium, )

Content and teaching methods

1. Phase equilibria : recall of binary systems ; ternary systems
2. Diffusion in solids
3. Ceramics and glasses :
- crystalline structure of ceramics
- the vitreous state and mineral glasses
- crystalline defects in ceramics
- mass transport and electrical conduction phenomena
- phase equilibria in ceramic synthesis processes
4. Physical metallurgy
- recall : the types of phase transformations
- kinetics of phase transformation ; TTT diagrams
- application to different meatls and alloys (steels, aluminium, )
5. Iron- and steelmaking processes
6. The extraction of aluminium

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

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