Monash University Science handbook 1995

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MSC2022

Materials science

8 points * Four 1-hour lectures/tutorial classes and one 5-hour laboratory class per week * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: To have attempted MSC2011

This subject consists of three equal-weight units: mechanical properties of materials - elastic constants and their measurement, the structure of dislocations, plastic deformation and the strengthening of crystals; introduction to phase transformations - diffusion in solid materials, nucleation and solidification in metals and alloys; and electrical and thermal properties - an introduction to these properties in metals, alloys and semiconductors based on a study of electron energy bands in solid, crystalline materials, superconductivity, thermo-electricity and some semiconducting devices.

Prescribed texts

Callister W D Materials science and engineering: An introduction Wiley, 1991

Smallman R E Modern physical metallurgy Butterworths, 1985

Assessment

Examinations (4.5 hours): 70% * Laboratory work: 30%



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