Subject Code: ML2L005	Subject Name: Physical Metallurgy	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): Thermodynamics of Materials
Introduction to metals and alloys: phase, component concepts, crystal structures, single crystal and polycrystalline metals; Crystallography concepts: reference frame conversion, Bravais lattice, close packed planes and directions, Miller indices , unit cell: primitive and non-primitive, introduction to texture; Hume Rothery’s rule; Strengthening mechanisms: dislocation, solid solution, precipitation, dispersion, grain-boundary;X-ray diffraction: Bragg’s law, applications; Theoretical strength of single crystals; Deformation in single and poly-crystals; Defects: classification (point, line, 2-dimensional and 3 -dimensional); Introduction to dislocation: types, mathematical representation; Orowanequation; Dislocation: stress field, line energy, interactions; Twin: types, mathematical representation; Diffusion: Fick’s laws, diffusivity and its physical interpretations, application in heat treatment
Text/Reference Books: R. E. Reed-Hill, Physical Metallurgy Principles, 4th Edition, 2008, Thomson-Engineering P.G. Shewmon, Diffusion in solids, 2nd Edition, 1991, John Wiley and Sons. D. Hull, D.J. Bacon, Introduction to Dislocations, 5th Edition, 2011, Butterworth-Heinemann