Complements of physical metallurgy
[MAPR2420]
[30h + 30h] 5 credits
This course is taught in the 2d semester.
This two-yearly course is taught in 2009-2010, 2011-2012,...
Teacher(s): Pascal Jacques(coord.), Thomas Pardoen
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
(1) the knowledge and understanding of the vocabulary and major principles of physical metallurgy;
(2) to have become familiar with the practice of the basic tools for the characterisation and for the testing of properties;
(3) to be able to use the theoretical principles and experimental tools in order to choose a material and to design the conditions of his processing in functions of the requirements for a particular application.
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
- Metallic ferromagnetic materials : ferromagnetism, permanent magnets, soft magnetic materials;
- Superconducting metallic compounds;
- rapid solidification, metallic glasses, quasi-crystals;
- High performance steels : recall of basic notions, mechanical properties, phase transformations, hardenability, annealing and tempering, surface treatments, thermomechanical treatments;
- High performance aluminium alloys;
- High performance non-ferrous alloys : light alloys (Mg, Ti), Cu and its alloys, low melting point alloys (Zn, Pb, Cd), alloys for high temperatures applications, superalloys;
- Kinetics of structural evolution in metallic alloys.
The practical work is organised in the form of a project carried out by groups of 3 or 4 students. The objective of this project is to contribute to the development of the competences mentioned in point 1 here above. In order to allow the groups to confront their knowledge and know-how to the reality of industrial problems, the subjects of the projects are proposed by industrial enterprises.
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