AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The goal of the course is to gain knowledge of the basic principles that determine physical, metallurgical and chemical phenomena involved in the design of metallic materials.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to deepen students' knowledge of the fundamental characteristics of metallic materials and the chemical-physical and metallurgical phenomena involved in their design, also through practical examples.

TEACHING METHODS

The course includes theoretical lessons, for a total of 4 credits.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Metals and alloys. Notes on the metallic bond. Solid solutions, interstitial and substitutional, ordered and disordered. Intermetallic compounds: structure and properties. Structure-sensitive and structure-insensitive properties. The ideal and the real crystal. Crystal defects and their classification. Point defects: vacancies, interstitials, impurities. Defect concentration at the equilibrium state. Experimental study of point defects at  thermal equilibrium and out of equilibrium state. Notes on linear defects: dislocations. Other types of 2D and 3D defects: surfaces, grain borders, precipitates, vacancy precipitation. Influence of defects on the properties of metallic materials. Diffusion in metals: macroscopic and microscopic aspects. Volume diffusion. Diffusion in homogeneous and eterogeneous systems. Diffusion coefficient and its experimental dependence from temperature. Atomic mechanisms of diffusion. Diffusion in alloys. Short circuits of diffusion. Effects and applications of diffusion phenomena: powder metallurgy. Homogeneous and eterogeneous solid state phase transitions. Phase transitions without diffusion.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Material distributed by the teacher, available on the AulaWeb site

- “Physical Metallurgy”, R.W.Cahn, Ed. P.Haasen, North-Holland, Amsterdam

- “Inorganic Structural Chemistry”, Second Edition, Ulrich Muller, Ed. John Wiley & Sons, England

- “Diffusion in Solids- Fundamentals, Methods, Materials, Diffusion-Controlled Processes”, Helmut Mehrer, Springer series in Solid-State Sciences, Ed. Springer-Verlag, Germany

- Materials Science and Engineering – an Introduction, William D. Callister, Jr. David G. Rethwisch, Ed. John Wiley & Sons, England

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

SERENA DE NEGRI (President)

ADRIANA SACCONE

PAVLO SOLOKHA (President Substitute)

DIEGO COLOMBARA (Substitute)

SIMONA DELSANTE (Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Starting from March, 1st, 2021, according to the timetable shown at  http://www.chimica.unige.it/didattica/Home_SC  or  https://corsi.unige.it/9018  ) 

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam is oral,it  is always conducted by two teachers and lasts approximately 45 minutes

ASSESSMENT METHODS

With the exam description mentioned above the Commission can verify with high accuracy the achievement of learning outcomes of teaching. When goals are not achieved, the student is asked to deepen the study and to ask further explanations to teachers.

Exam schedule