Govt. College of Engineering & Technology
Govt. College of Engineering & Technology
UNIT-1
Classification of Engineering materials (with special reference to Electrical and Electronics
engineering materials), Engineering requirements of materials.
Crystal structure-- space lattice, Bravais lattice, Miller indices of cubic and hexagonal systems,
closed-packed plane and directions, Packing in solids, voids, diamond cubic structure, packing in
conic solids, crystal imperfections, point defect, line defect, surface defects (in brief).
UNIT-2
Solid solutions, Hume-Rothery rule, phase diagrams, binary phase diagrams, Fe-C phase
diagrams, Alloys, alloys transformations, properties of various alloys, applications of Iron silicon,
Iron-nickel and Iron-cobalt alloys, heat treatment processes- annealing, normalizing, hardening,
case-hardening etc.
UNIT-3
Conductors- Free electron theory, equation of conductivity, conducting materials, material
requirement for contact resistors, precision resistors, thermometers, heating elements,
transmission line etc.
Semi-conductors Band theory, equation for conductivity, zone theory (for explaining energy
gaps), types of semi-conductors, semi-conductor materials, method of glowing, technique for
producing single crystal, zone referring technique.
UNIT-4
Magnetism, types of magnetisms, dipole moment, domains, ferrimagnetism, anti-ferromagnetism,
ferrite magnets, soft and hard magnetic materials and heat treatment cycles.
Dielectric materials, polarization, types, dielectric strength, dielectric losses etc., Piezo-electric
effect, ferro-electric materials, optical properties of materials.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS :
1. Electrical Engineering Materials A.J. Dekker.
2. Material Scince and Engineering V Rahghvan.
3. Electrical Engineering Materials P.C. Kapoor.
4. Electrical Engineering Materials NITTTR, Madras
NOTE : There shall be total eight questions, two from each unit. Five questions have to be
attempted selecting at least one question from each unit. Use of calculator is allowed.