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- Catalog Description
- 465 Fundamentals of Heat Treatment. I; 3 cr. Principles
of transformations, heat transfer, heat
treatment, and mechanical properties as applied to
ferrous metallurgical design. P: Sr st.
- Course Prerequisite(s)
- See catalog description above.
- Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills
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Solid state structure and imperfections
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Phase diagrams and transformations
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Microstructural analysis and metallography
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Transport phenomena
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Thermodynamic equilibria
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Mechanical behavior
- Textbook(s) and/or other required material
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Heat Treating - Metals Handbook, vol. 4, 10th Edition, ASM (Materials Park, OH) 1991.
- Course objectives
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This course is designed to provide seniors in materials science and engineering the ability to perform a detailed analysis
of heat treatments in order to be able to specify and select materials or to design new applications for materials. It also
offers a basic understanding of the process characterization and control that is the basis of computer-aided modeling and
optimization of heat treatment practice.
- Topics covered
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Heat treatment principles: materials selection, deformation behavior, strengthening, diffusion, solidification, alloying of
iron, phase diagrams, transformation kinetics/mechanisms (
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Heat treatment of steel: normalizing, annealing, quenching, tempering, martempering, austempering
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Ultra high strength steel, maraging
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Thermomechanical processing
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Surface hardening: gas carburizing: microstructure of carburized steels, gas atmospheres
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Quantitative prediction, computer modeling
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Statistical process control
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Stainless steels, superalloys
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Titanium alloys
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Alloy design models
- Class/laboratory schedule
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class schedule: 3 hours/week
- Contribution of course to meeting the professional component
- This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of engineering topics, and does provide design experience.
The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.
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- Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes
- This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives.
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This course builds on the fundamentals of structure-property-processing-performance relationships that students obtained in the prerequisites. It develops student experience in applying the fundamentals to the design, analysis and interpretation of materials performance. Students use Materials Science and Engineering concepts and tools to design materials and to diagnose material-related problems and formulate solutions.
- Assessment of student progress toward course objectives
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Extended homework problem assignments (graded), a midterm and a final exam and a project assignment to evaluate the students' ability (1) identify and evaluate processing treatments; (2) to analyze and interpret material performance data and (3) to design new processes and controls.
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