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Materials Science with Lab Exercises

Module name (EN):
Name of module in study programme. It should be precise and clear.
Materials Science with Lab Exercises
Degree programme:
Study Programme with validity of corresponding study regulations containing this module.
Mechanical and Process Engineering, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2024
Module code: MAB_24_A_1.03.WSK
Hours per semester week / Teaching method:
The count of hours per week is a combination of lecture (V for German Vorlesung), exercise (U for Übung), practice (P) oder project (PA). For example a course of the form 2V+2U has 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of exercise per week.
4V+1P (5 hours per week)
ECTS credits:
European Credit Transfer System. Points for successful completion of a course. Each ECTS point represents a workload of 30 hours.
5
Semester: 1
Mandatory course: yes
Language of instruction:
German
Assessment:
Written exam 180 min.


[updated 05.10.2020]
Applicability / Curricular relevance:
All study programs (with year of the version of study regulations) containing the course.

MAB_19_A_1.03.WSK (P241-0206, P241-0291) Mechanical and Process Engineering, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2019 , semester 1, mandatory course
MAB_24_A_1.03.WSK Mechanical and Process Engineering, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2024 , semester 1, mandatory course
Workload:
Workload of student for successfully completing the course. Each ECTS credit represents 30 working hours. These are the combined effort of face-to-face time, post-processing the subject of the lecture, exercises and preparation for the exam.

The total workload is distributed on the semester (01.04.-30.09. during the summer term, 01.10.-31.03. during the winter term).
75 class hours (= 56.25 clock hours) over a 15-week period.
The total student study time is 150 hours (equivalent to 5 ECTS credits).
There are therefore 93.75 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.
Recommended prerequisites (modules):
None.
Recommended as prerequisite for:
MAB_24_A_2.03.GBD Basics of Component Dimensioning
MAB_24_M_3.06.BTD


[updated 08.10.2024]
Module coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Moritz Habschied
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Moritz Habschied

[updated 29.10.2023]
Learning outcomes:
After successfully completing this course, students will be familiar with the tensile test, hardness test methods and the charpy impact test and will be able to determine and interpret the corresponding characteristic values. They will be able to attribute specific material behavior to the respective microstructure.
Students will be familiar with the basics of elastic and plastic deformation, the microstructure of metals and basic mechanisms for increasing strength. They can correlate these with the material entanglement observed.
 
Students will be familiar with the basic types of phase diagrams in binary systems, as well as iron-cement and the connection to cooling curves. They will be able to derive the evolution of the microstructure and correlate it with real structures. They will be able to calculate proportions and phases depending on the concentration.
 
Students will understand the effect of steel production on the properties of steels. They will be able to select the annealing and hardening processes required to achieve desired properties. They will also be able to select suitable surface hardening methods.
 
Students will be able to determine the microstructure of steel structures.  
 
In practical exercises, they will learn to work in teams to acquire new knowledge and to work on interdisciplinary test tasks. They will be able to reflect their opinions and defend them with factual arguments.

[updated 05.10.2020]
Module content:
- Load types (axial, shear, bending, torsion)
- Tensile testing
- Basic terms: strength-deformation-breakage
 
- Brittle and ductile behavior and external influences
- Test procedures
       Hardness test
       Charpy impact test
       Fatigue test, Wöhler curve and Smith chart
 
- Metallurgy
       - Crystal structure and microstructure
       Crystallographic defects and their significance for deformability and strength
 
- Basics of materials technology        
       Nucleation and solidification       
       Diffusion       
       Alloy and precipitation formation
       Microstructure change and influence through diffusion-controlled processes
 
- Phase diagrams
       Cooling curves
       Basic types with segregation and formation of eutectics and intermetallic phases
       Schematic diagrams of microstructural development
 
       Calculating quantities
 
- Cementite phase diagram
       Derivation of the microstructure development
       Schematic and real microstructural development  
       Calculating quantities
 
- Steel production and alloy adjustment
 
- Heat treatment processes
       Stress relief annealing
       Recrystallization annealing
       Soft annealing
       Normalizing
       Coarse-grain annealing
       Homogenization annealing
 
- Basics of hardening and tempering
- Formation and adjustment of martensite, intermediate stage and microstructure of the lower pearlite stage
- TTT diagram and cooling chart
 
- Influence of C-content and alloying elements on hardening and tempering ability and the TTT diagram
- Formation, properties and effect of retained austenite
 
- Surface hardening process with changes in the chemical composition
       Case hardening
       Nitriding
       Carbonitriding
        
        
 
  
 
- Steel designations

[updated 05.10.2020]
Teaching methods/Media:
Interactive, seminaristic lecture
Practical training in the lab in small groups


[updated 05.10.2020]
Recommended or required reading:
Bargel, Schulze: Werkstoffe
Bergmann: Werkstofftechnik Teil 1
Heine, Werkstoffprüfung


[updated 05.10.2020]
 
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