ENME407-23S1 (C) Semester One 2023

Advanced Materials Science and Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2023
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 5 March 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 14 May 2023

Description

Materials processing; phase transformations in metals and alloys; aluminium and ferrous alloys.

Learning Outcomes

ENME407 and ENME607
Knowledge outcomes:
Describe the relation between Gibbs free energy, phase stability and driving forces.
Understand models for chemical potential and activity of components in solution.
Understand the different diffusion coefficients and when to use each.
Describe recovery, recrystallization and grain growth, when each is important and the effect on material properties.
Describe casting microstructures and casting defects and how to reduce them.
Describe the evolution of microstructure in Al alloys and steels during processing.
Describe evolution of welding microstructures and resultant properties.
Describe uses and limitations of optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD).

Skills outcomes:
Sketch the Gibbs free energy curves that correspond to simple phase diagrams.
Predict equilibrium structure of alloy from phase diagram.
Calculate driving forces for phase transformations.
Solve diffusion problems corresponding to common materials processing routes.
Apply equations of nucleation and growth to solidification and solid-state phase transformations.
Calculate rates of transformation and understand relation to TTT diagrams.
Design processing routes to achieve desired properties in Al alloys and steels using CCT diagrams.

Personal attributes developed:
Ability to communicate technical materials concepts with other engineers.
Ability to interpret technological handbook information for ferrous and non-ferrous alloys.
(ENME607 only) Ability to locate and synthesise relevant technical materials literature into a written literature review and presentation.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Catherine Bishop

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Lab A worksheet 16 Mar 2022 5%
Lab B Worksheet 27 Apr 2022 10%
Lab C Worksheet 25 May 2022 10%
Lab D Worksheet 01 Jun 2022 10%
Final Exam 65%


Please refer to the course Learn page for details of assessment information.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Porter, David A. , Easterling, K. E., Sherif, Mohamed Y; Phase transformations in metals and alloys ; Fourth edition; CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Lecture Handouts:
Lecture slides are posted to LEARN. Some additional slides may be made available before lectures in Lecture section of the LEARN site.  You should bring slides to the lectures to annotate on either a soft or hard copy.

Required Reading Material:
Reading assignments will be given throughout the term. Completion of these assignments is essential for the course. To maximise learning, you must complete the reading from the required text, selected chapters of other books that will be posted on LEARN, and the additional references posted on LEARN.

Notes

For detailed course, policy, regulatory and integrity information, please refer to the UC web site, or see relevant Course or Department LEARN pages, (which are available to enrolled students).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,164.00

International fee $5,750.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

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