MECHANICAL MATERIAL AND METAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES

The aim of  this course is to provide student:
   - Some kinds of materials in engineering;
   - Some analyzing methods for selecting suitable materials in mechanical design;
   - Some organic relations between material structures and properties, some heat treatments for changing the mechanical – physical properties.
“Materials and heat treatment” provides some knowledges as follow:
   -    Mechanical and physical properties
   -    Phase structures and phase changes through phase diagrams
   -    Diffusion and failure mechanicsm
   -    Basic of sciences in material treatment to obtain required properties
   -    How to find information and knowledge sources for engineering design

CONTENT AND METHOD

Able to use basic science and engineering to analyze organic relation between properties and structures.
   -    Use the right material for the job
   -    Understand the relation between properties, structure, and processing
   -    Recognize new design opportunities offered by materials selection
   -    Understand that new materials can be tailored to specific design requirements
Ability to analyze the properties of objects
   -    Determine the structure and atom bonding
   -    Classify typical crystal structures such as body centered cubic, face centered cubic, hexagonal cubic.
   -    Determine dislocation such as point, line and surface defects.
   -    Understand the stress – strain diagram
   -    Distinguish different processes in the stress – strain diagram such as elastic, plastic and failure.
Able to analyze the existence of different phases and understand the transformation of phases and solidification process
   -    Classify different phases 
   -    Analyze phases, characteristics of Fe-C diagram.
   -    Understand the thermo-dynamic process in phase transmission
   -    Understand the way of crystallization 
   -    Analyze the types of transmission in Fe-C alloys.
Classify heat treatment methods
   -    Understand the phase diagram of the specific materials
   -    Classify the temper
   -    Determine the processes in hardening and tempering

Determine the suitable steels or cast iron in design
   -    Distinguish the different properties of construction steels, tool steel, part steels
   -    Distinguish basic difference between steels and cast iron
Determine nonferrous alloys and composite for design
   -    Distinguish copper, aluminum and titanium alloys 
   -    Distinguish some kinds of composite, polymer and ceramic
Improve teamwork, communication and presentation skills
   -    Identify the importance of teamwork
   -    Identify the growth stages of a team
   -    Improve communication and presentation skills 
   -    Improve teamwork skills
   -    Identify the importane of English in engineering
   -    Expand English vocabulary and terminology terms of thermodynamics

TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCE MATERIALS

Sách, giáo trình chính
   1.    W. D. Callister, Jr John Wiley, Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction, 2011.
   2.    Nghiêm Hùng, Cơ sở vật liệu học, NXB Khoa học kỹ thuật, 2002.
Sách tham khảo
   1.    Lê Công Dưỡng, Vật liệu học, Đại học Bách Khoa Hà Nội, 1996
   2.    Đặng Vũ Ngoạn, Vật liệu kỹ thuật, ĐHQG TP HCM, 2006
   3.    Đặng Vũ Ngoạn, Thí nghiệm vật liệu học và xử lý, ĐHQG TP HCM 2003
   4.    B. N. Arzamaxov, Vật liệu học, NXB Giáo dục, 2000.

TIME

2 days: 
   -    Morning 8:30 – 11:30 (break 15 mins) 
   -    Afternoon 13:30 – 16:30 (break 15 mins)
TRAINER

Lecturers from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam National University