MECH 270: Materials Science and Engineering

Fall 2011                         Instructor: Prof. Keith Pilkey

                                                         Room 303, Nicol Hall

                                                         533-6303

                                                         pilkey@me.queensu.ca

 

 

Announcements

Click here for a list of equations provided in the final exam.

Unclaimed quizzes and lab reports can be picked up in the Main Office (Room 228) of Nicol Hall during regular office hours, 9:00am-12:30pm.

Dr. Pilkey's Pre-Exam Office Hours in Room 232 of Nicol Hall

• Friday, Dec. 16, 2:30-4:00pm
• Monday, Dec. 19, 10:30am-12:00pm

 

Course Outline

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Lecture Notes

Print out these notes and bring them to lectures:

• Atomic Structure and Interatomic Bonding
• The Structure of Crystalline Solids
• Lattice Defects
• Elastic and Plastic Deformation
• Dislocations and Crytallographic Slip
• Slip Systems
• Slip in a Single Crystal - to be presented on the blackboard
  • example
• Strengthening Mechanisms
• Handout: Free Energy, Driving Force and System Mobility
• Recovery, Recrystallization and Grain Growth
• Diffusion
• Creep
• Phase Diagrams I
• Phase Diagrams II (Equilibrium vs. Non-Equilibrium Cooling) - to be presented on the blackboard
• Phase Diagrams III (Eutectic Systems)
• Phase Diagrams IV (Additional Features)
• The Fe-C System
• Phase Transformations in Metals I
• Phase Transformations in Metals II
• Handout: Common Steel Microstructures
• Precipitation Hardening of Aluminum Alloys
• Polymers I (Structure)
• Polymers IIa (Mechanical Properties)
• Polymers IIb (Deformation)
• Polymers III (Deformation continued)
• Polymers IV (Elastomers)
• Ceramics I (Structure)
• Ceramics II (Mechanical Properties)
• Composites
• 2009 Final Exam *** new ***

 

Sections in Callister Textbook (8th ed.)

Atomic Structure and Interatomic Bonding:  2.1-2.6

The Structure of Crystalline Solids:  3.1-3.4, 3.9-3.10, 3.12-3.14

Lattice Defects:  4.1-4.3, 4.5-4.6

Elastic and Plastic Deformation:  6.1-6.3, 6.6-6.8

Dislocations and Strengthening Mechanisms:  7.1-7.6, 7.8-7.10

 

Lab Information

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• Lab Information
• Lab Schedule
• Lab Groups
  • Monday 2:30-4:30
  • Wednesday 11:30-1:30
  • Wednesday 2:30-4:30
  • Thursday 9:30-11:30
  • Thursday 2:30-4:30

 

Practice Problems and Tutorials

Week 2 - 3.29, 3.30(b)(c), 3.32(b)(d), 3.33(a)(b), 3.40(a)(b)(c), 3.42

• Solutions

Week 3 - no tutorial

 

Week 4 - lecture to be held in tutorial time-slot... working through examples of "Slip in a Single Crystal"

Week 5 - 7.11, 7.13, 7.16, problem from 2009 Quiz #1 (solution presented during tutorial on Oct. 11)

• Solutions

Week 6 - 5.7, 5.9, 5.11, 5.15, 5.31

• Solutions

Week 7 - 9.8(a)(c)(d), 9.9, 9.14(a)(c)(d), 9.17, 9.19

• Solutions

Week 9 - 9.35, 9.51, 9.53, 10.18(a)(c)(e)(g), problem from 2009 Quiz #3 (solution to be presented during tutorial on Nov. 22)

• Solutions

 

Note: Solutions to selected problems will be presented during the tutorial sessions.