The exhaustive list of topics in Materials Technology in which we provide Help with Homework Assignment and Help with Project is as follows:
- Alloys and Solid Solutions- Substitutional and Interstitial Solid Solutions, Hume Rothery, Criteria, Vegard's law
- Compounds in Alloy Systems - Intermediate Phases and Intermetallic Compounds.
- Composition as a variable - Negative deviation from ideality, ideal and positive deviation from ideality, qualitative and quantitative description of each case.
- Binary phase diagrams- complete solubility in both solid & liquid (Cu-Ni), lever rule
- Thermal analysis and phase diagrams, systems with indifferent point (Azeotropic Systems), miscibility gap
- Eutectic and peritectic phase diagrams
- Non-equilibrium phase transformations - coring, surrounding or encasement, lamellar structure, ageprecipitation hardening
- Fe-C (Fe-Fe3C) phase diagram
- Plain carbon and alloy steels
- T - T - T curves, heat treatments-tempering, austempering, martempering, ausforming.
- Stainless steels and Cast irons.
- Normal freezing and the distribution coefficient, Segregation during normal freezing
- Burton-Prim-Slichter theory for Effective Distribution Coefficient
- Determining the Distribution Coefficient, Zone Refining, Single pass distribution.
- Multipass distribution, Ultimate distribution, Float Zoning.
- Empirical laws of diffusion - macroscopic view point, Steady and non-steady state flow, Diffusion Couple, representative problems
- Corrosion resistance of duralumin (Alclad)
- Gas carburizing and nitriding, impurity diffusion in silicon wafers, decarburization.
- Diffusion mechanisms, self diffusion, factors affecting diffusion coefficients
- Interdiffusion and Kirkendall Effect.
- Volume diffusion, grain boundary diffusion and surface diffusion, Random walk.
- Homogeneous nucleation, temperature variation of r* and f*
- Calculation of nucleation rate, Sluggishness of solid solid transformations.
- Heterogeneous nucleation qualitative ideas, seeding of clouds and growth of diamond, and spinodal decomposition.
- Bridgmann Stockbarger,Czochralski and Kyropoulous techniques.
- Crucibileless techniques - flame fusion
- Solution growth, hydrothermal growth
- Supersaturation and growth from vapour phase.
- Corrosion, types of Corrosion, electrochemical corrosion of metals
- Standard electrode half cell potentials, Galvanic cells, common cathode reactions for aqueous galvanic cells
- Corrosion of single electrodes (microscopic galvanic cells), concentration galvanic cells, oxygen concentration cells
- Corrosion rates - activation and concentration polarization, passivation, Anode size effect
- Corrosion control methods
- Oxidation, physical adsorption and chemisorption, Pilling Bedworth ratio
- Mechanisms of oxide film growth, protective oxide films - necessary attributes, oxidation rates
- Oxidation control and oxidation resistance of stainless and other alloy steels
- Kanthal, Nichrome, Inconel Chromel, alumel; selective, grain boundary and internal o