Physical Metallurgy - MATS4013


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Materials Science and Engineering
	Course Outline: http://www.materials.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 3
	EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Unit 1 Dislocations - Deformation of metals. Atomic and molecular description of deformation. Introduction to dislocation theory and its application to mechanical properties.

Unit 2 Phase Transformations - Solidification. Solid state transformations; diffusional and diffusionless transformations. Kinetics of phase transformations; Structure and properties of steels and nonferrous alloys.