Materials Testing and Characterization Techniques
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dsathiyaMF5016 MATERIALS TESTING AND CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES L T P C
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OBJECTIVE:
This course aims to impart knowledge on various techniques of material characterization.
UNIT I MICRO AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS 10
Principles of Optical Microscopy – Specimen Preparation Techniques – Polishing and
Etching – Polarization Techniques – Quantitative Metallography – Estimation of grain size –
ASTM grain size numbers – Microstructure of Engineering Materials - Elements of
Crystallography – X- ray Diffraction – Bragg’s law – Techniques of X-ray Crystallography –
Debye – Scherer camera – Geiger Diffractometer – analysis of Diffraction patterns – Inter
planer spacing – Identification of Crystal Structure, Elements of Electron Diffraction.
UNIT II ELECTRON MICROSCOPY 9
Interaction of Electron Beam with Materials – Transmission Electron Microscopy – Specimen
Preparation – Imaging Techniques – BF & DF – SAD – Electron Probe Microanalysis –
Scanning Electron Microscopy – Construction & working of SEM – various Imaging
Techniques – ApplicationsAtomic Force Microscopy- Construction & working of AFM -
Applications .
UNIT III CHEMICAL AND THERMAL ANALYSIS 9
Basic Principles, Practice and Applications of X-Ray Spectrometry, Wave Dispersive X-Ray
Spectrometry, Auger Spectroscopy, Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform
Infra Red Spectroscopy (FTIR)- Proton Induced X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy, Differential
Thermal Analysis, Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) And Thermo Gravitymetric
Analysis (TGA)
UNIT IV MECHANICAL TESTING – STATIC TESTS 8
Hardness – Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell and Micro Hardness Test – Tensile Test – Stress –
Strain plot– Proof Stress – Torsion Test - Ductility Measurement – Impact Test – Charpy &
Izod – DWTT - Fracture Toughness Test, Codes and standards for testing metallic and
composite materials.
UNIT V MECHANICAL TESTING – DYNAMIC TESTS 9
Fatigue – Low & High Cycle Fatigues – Rotating Beam & Plate Bending HCF tests – S-N
curve – LCF tests – Crack Growth studies – Creep Tests – LM parameters – AE Tests-
modal analysis - Applications of Dynamic Tests.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
At the end of this course the students are expected to be knowledgeable in microstructure
evaluation, crystal structure analysis, electron microscopy, Chemical Thermal Analysis,
static and dynamic mechanical testing methods.
REFERENCES:
1. ASM Hand book-Materials characterization, Vol – 10, 2004.
2. Culity B.D., Stock S.R& Stock S., Elements of X ray Diffraction, (3rd Edition). Prentice Hall,
2001.
3. Davis J. R., Tensile Testing, 2nd Edition, ASM International, 2004.
4. Davis, H.E., Hauck G. & Troxell G.E., The Testing of engineering Materials, (4th Edition),
McGraw Hill, College Divn., 1982.
5. Dieter G.E., Mechanical Metallurgy, (3rd Edition), ISBN: 0070168938, McGraw Hill, 1988.
6. Goldsten,I.J., Dale.E., Echin.N.P.& Joy D.C., Scanning Electron Microscopy & X ray-
Micro
Analysis, (2nd Edition), ISBN – 0306441756, Plenum Publishing Corp., 2000.
7. Grundy P.J. and Jones G.A., Electron Microscopy in the Study of Materials, Edward
Arnold Limited, 1976.
8. Morita.S, Wiesendanger.R, and Meyer.E, “Non-contact Atomic Force Microscopy”
Springer, 2002,
9. Newby J., Metals Hand Book- Metallography & Micro Structures, (9th Edition), ASM
International, 1989.
10. Suryanarayana A. V. K., Testing of metallic materials, (2nd Edition), BS publications, 2007
