- Docente: Fabrizia Grepioni
- Credits: 6
- SSD: CHIM/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Chemistry and Materials Chemistry (cod. 8006)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student is expected to possess a basic knowledge of the main classes of functional and structural materials, their properties and applications.
Course contents
Introduction.
Metals: Diffusion mechanisms. Overview of mechanical properties.
Deformation mechanisms. Hardening methods and mechanisms.
Recovery, recrystallization, grain growth.
Phase Diagrams and binary systems: Cu-Ni, Sn-Pb and Fe-C alloys.
Phase transformation kinetics. TTT diagrams for steel.
Shape memory alloys. Ferrous and non-ferrous alloys.
Ceramic materials. Phase diagrams and mechanical properties.
Classic ceramic materials. Cements.
Silicium and silicates. Zeolites: structure, synthesis, applications.
Glasses: structural models, preparation, reactivity, thermal/mechanical/optical properties. Optical fibres.
1 CFU (16 hours) laboratory.
Readings/Bibliography
Callister "Materials Science and Engineering", Wiley John + Sons; 8th edition. International Student Version. (7th edition is also ok).
Teaching methods
Lessons, laboratory, excercises
Assessment methods
Oral or written examination.
Teaching tools
powerpoint, graphic softwares
Office hours
See the website of Fabrizia Grepioni