MY 3200 Materials Characterization I

1. Optical Metallography & Quantitative Image Analysis
   
   • Grain Size
   • Volume Fractions
   • Particle Size distributions
   • Convert easily between weight, mole and volume fractions for any number of components.
     
     Download Mathcad File.
     
2. Mechanical testing
   
   • Tensile testing - Ultrasonic measurement of Elastic Properties
   • Hardness Testing
3. Crystal Geometry
   
   • Review of crystal systems,
   • lattice vectors,
   • lattice points,
   • planes and directions - Miller Indices,
   • Hexagonal Miller-Bravais Indices {hkil} and conversion to/from Miller Indices {hkl}.
4. Stereographic Projections
   
   • Graphical method of plotting pole of (hkl) in a cubic system
   • Plotting the zone [uvw] in a cubic system
   • Changing the centre of the stereographic projection and replottingthe positions of various poles.
   • Vectors in non-cubic crystals
   • Finding the Perpendicular to a plane in non-cubic crystals using the reciprocal lattice vectors.

   • All the tools you need to plot out the position of any pole or zone of a cubic or non-cubic crystal on a stereographic projection. The projections can even be rotated so that any pole is at the centre of the projection rather than the standard [001] pole. These tools demonstrate how to use matrix algebra to effect geometric and co-ordinate transformations. Download the MathCAD file for cubic crystals. Download the MathCAD file for all crystal systems.

5. Scanning Electron Microscopy
   
   • Secondary electron imaging - topography
   • Backscattered electron imaging - composition
6. X-Ray Diffraction/Electron Diffraction
   
   • Braggs Law
   • Characteristics of X-ray Spectra and absorbtion of x-rays
   • Structure Factors and Systematic abscences
   • Calculating diffracted intensity
   • Electron Diffraction Patterns
7. Spectroscopy
   
   • X-Ray Flouresence Spectroscopy,
   • Energy Dispersive and Wavelength dispersive X-Ray Analysis,
   • Simulation of X-Ray generation in Electron Micorscope.
   • X-ray analysis of chemistry. ZAF corrections.
8. Band gap of a semiconductor
9. Tensile Testing Experiment
10. Hardness Experiment
11. Particle Size Distribution Experiment
12. Measurement of Grain Size Experiment
13. Metallography of Steel
14. Oxidation Experiment
15. TTT diagrams
16. Viscosity Experiment
17. Fracture Experiment