Microstructure Design of Structural Materials

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The focus of this course is on understanding the microstructure development and design of structural ferrous metals. The course will begin with understanding the basic physical metallurgy concepts of ferrous metals and applying these principles to understanding their processing/structure/property relationships. Specifically, the alloying principles, phase transformation behavior, and transformation kinetics steels will be considered in detail. Heat treatment practices (annealing, normalizing, quenching, tempering, and precipitation hardening) and their effects on the microstructure and mechanical properties of each of these metals will also be studied.