Description
This course provides an introduction to engineering materials and their properties, classes of materials, and their general properties, developments in materials used for various applications over time, types of Bonding: interatomic forces and energies, and there relation to engineering materials’ properties, crystal structures and geometry, crystaline imperfections and their effect on mechanical properties, phase diagrams.
Lab and Tutorials:
The course requires practice in the materials lab.
Literature:
• W. Smith, “Principals of Materials Science and Engineering”, 3rd Ed., McGraw Hill Publishing Co., 1996. • R. Askeland, “The Science and Engineering of Materials”, 5th Ed., PWS Publishing Co., Boston, 1999.
