Crystalline lattices, cast and wrought structures. Phase transformations. Plastic deformation and annealing, hot and cold working, strengthening mechanisms. Metallurgy of steels, equilibrium and non-equilibrium transformations. Alloying, harden ability and heat treatment. Non-ferrous metallurgy. Aluminium alloys, heat-treatable and non-heat-treatable alloys, age hardening. Copper-based alloys, brasses and bronzes. Welding metallurgy, fusion zone and heat affected zone. Weldability of steels, aluminium alloys. Mechanical behaviour. Tension, compression, impact, fatigue, creep. Ductile and brittle fracture. Corrosion mechanisms and processes.