1. Course Objective/Description: Introduce fundamental concepts in Materials
Science. After this course, you will learn about material structure, how structure dictates properties and how processing can change structure.
2. Required textbook:Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction,
W.D. Callister, Jr. and D.G. Rethwisch, 8th edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (2010).
3. Couse website: LMS 數位學習系統 http://lms.nthu.edu.tw , including syllabus, lectures notes, homework probelm etc.
4、References
(1).Elements of Materials Science and Engineering,6th Edition L.H. Van Vlck, Addison-Wesley, Inc., 1989.
(2).Introduction to Materials Science for Engineers, 4th Ed., James F. Shackelford, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1996.
(3).Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering, 2nd Edition W.F. Smith, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993.
(4).The Science and Engineering of Materials, 3rd Edition D.R.Askeland, PWS-KENT Inc., 1994
5. Teaching method: Lectures with powerpoint materilas highlight improtant portions of each chapter. Some experiment will be conducted for some chapters.
6. Lecture schedule
chapter 1 General introduction
chapter 2 atomic structure and interatomic bonding
chapter 3 Crystalline structures
chapter 4 Impections (point defects, line defects, and volume defects)
chapter 5 Diffusion
chapter 6 Mechanical properties
chapter 7 Strenthening Mechanisms
chapter 8 Failure
chapter 9 Phase diagrams
chapter 10 & 11 Phase transformations/applications and processing metal alloys
6. Grading:
20% of homework,
25% of midterm #1,
27% of midterm #2,
28% of final exam.