CME 300 Properties of Materials

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00 to 9:50
Rec. Center 3230 (near Starbucks)

Dr. Greg Beaucage
492 Rhodes Hall (410 Rhodes Hall Lab)
beaucag@uc.edu
556-3063
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 10:00 to 11:00 or by arrangement

Suggested Texts:  1) Materials Science and Engineering an Introduction, W. D. Callister (and D. G. Rethwisch) any edition
                              2) Understanding Materials Science, R. E. Hummel

Evaluations:  F 2011

Homework F2011:  HW1, Answers HW1, HW2, Answers HW2, HW3, Answers HW3, HW4, Answers HW4, HW5, Answers HW5, HW6, Answers HW6, HW7, Answers HW7,
                                HW8, Answers HW8, HW9, Answers HW9
Quizzes F2011:  Quiz 1; Quiz 2; Quiz 3; Quiz 4; Quiz 5; Quiz 6; Quiz 7; Quiz 8; Quiz 9; Final (4 Quiz Value)

Homework F2010:  HW1; Ans. DHW1; HW2; Ans. DHW2; HW3; Ans. DHW3; HW4, AnswersHW4; HW5; AnswersHW5; HW6; AnswersHW6; HW7; AnswersHW7; Kuppa Homework; Answers Kuppa; HW8
Quizzes F2010: Quiz 1 Durgesh; Answers DQ1; Quiz 2 Durgesh; Answers DQ2; Quiz 3; Quiz 4; Quiz 5; Quiz 6; Quiz 7; Final Exam

Course Synopsis:  Properties of Materials gives an overview of Materials Science for Chemical Engineers with an emphasis on topics that students may encounter in the Engineer in Training Exam; in graduate research projects in Chemical and Materials Engineering; and in typical professional positions for Chemical Engineers in the plastics, metals, consumer products, and microelectronics industries.  Some discussion of materials aspects of heterogeneous catalysts will also be presented in this 10 week, 3 credit course.

Course Logistics and Grading:
The course will meet 3 times per week on Monday and Wednesday for lectures and on Friday for a review session and a short (30 minute) quiz (this schedule may be shifted by a day or two).  The weekly quiz will be the core of the course grade.  In some cases homework will be used to replace quiz grades.  Generally, a weekly homework will be assigned but this will not be collected.  When possible, answer sheets will be made available on line for the homework and quizzes.

In addition to the weekly quizzes a comprehensive final exam will be given that will include questions from the quizzes, homework as well as other information covered in the course.  The final exam will count as four quizzes. 

The course grade will be an average of the weekly quizzes and the final which is worth 4 quizzes.  You are allowed to drop three quiz grades.  If you do not drop 3 quiz grades you do not need to take the final.  The 3 lowest quiz grades or the final will be dropped from the final average depending on what results in the highest grade.

Only whole grades will be assigned following the usual convention: A at or above 90.0, B at or above 80.0 and C at or above 70.0.  There will be no scaling and it is possible that everyone in the class can get an A.

Policy for Academic Honesty:
If there is evidence of cheating the student will receive an F for the course and the evidence for cheating will be forwarded to the College Academic Standards Committee for placement in the students academic record.  Appeals will be conducted through a hearing of the College Committee. 

Course Schedule:
Week 1/September 19 (No Class Monday):  Crystallography    (Slides1)
        Crystalline Structure.html
        Crystal Lattice Types, Crystal Structures, Angle between directions/planes, Crystallography Software, d-spacing equations, Table of interplanar angles
        Polymer Crystals (B. Lotz)

Week 2/September 26:  Crystallography/Grains/Polymer Crystals (Continuum Mechanics Basics)
        Stress Strain Notes from Mechanics Class
        Morphology of Mechanics in Metals (high level), Wiki Strain Hardening
        Movement of Edge Dislocation, 3-d Edge Dislocation,  Dislocation and Impurities Video, LatticeDefectsDisclinations.ppt
        British Notes,  Some useful Videos from MIT,
        University of Virginia Metallurgy Notes, Metal Crystal Structures
        Stress and Strain word document from Texas A&M
        Polymer Crystal Structure

Week 3/October 3:  Diffraction  (Slides2)
        Cubic Reflections in order, Diffraction notes U. Michigan
        Diffraction Al Foil, Can Oriented Side, Top of Can, Foil
        States of Matter Simulation,
        Generation of x-rays, Tulane Diffraction Notes
        Peak Breadth MIT Slides

Week 4/October 10:  Metal phase diagrams.  (Slides3)
        Spinodal Decomposition Movie, Notes on Polymer Phase Behavior from Sheffield UK
        A lattice model, British Notes on Phase Behavior,
        Metal Phase Diagrams UVa.pdf, Copper/Zinc Phase Diagram.ppt
        Steel Tutorial, Wiki Austinite(FCC), Wiki Martensite (BCC), Steel.ppt, Schaefer Phase Diagrams.pptx, Steel Video, Dumping Slag 1994

Week 5/October 17: Iron/Carbon Phase Diagram  (Slides4)

Week 6/October 24: Aluminum Alloys and Iron/Carbon Phase Diagram (Yaw Aluminum Alloys)

Week 7/October 31:  Polymers Polymers, Random Walk Calcuator (Slides 5) (Ram.pdf 11/14/11)
        Polymers from Processing, What is a Polymer, Types of Polymerization Reaction, Storage and Loss Modulus, Polymer Bubbles
        Molecular Weight Distributions, Wiki Tacticity, DMA1, DMA2, DMA3, DMA4, WLF Shift Factor
        Free Radical Polymerization, Polymer Synthesis USM, Cis and Trans Conformations, Chain vs. Step Growth Notes, Step Growth Calculator (MW), Step Growth (Rochester)
        Polyurethane, Polyurethane small scale, Polycarbonate, Poly ethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE)
        Percolation Simulation, Gellation Notes

        PDMS Synthesis by Ring Opening Chain Growth; Crosslinking by Sol-Gel Reaction Simple, Complex, Aerogel Video Clip
        PE by free radical Chain Growth, PE by Anionic Polymerization; Anionic Video of Polystyrene Synthesis
        Case Short Introduction to Polymers
       
Week 8/9/November 7 Semiconductors/Electrical Properties (Slides 6)

   Mechanical Properties of Materials 
       Mechanics of Materials, Wiki Stress Strain Curve for Steel

Final Monday December 5, 2011  8 AM to 10 AM

Grades (Current grade mean of the quizzes taken.  Your actual grade will drop the 3 lowest grades.
The final is worth 4 quiz grades and the 3 lowest grades or the final will be dropped.
Only whole grades will be awarded:  A = 90.0-100; B = 80.0-89.9; C = 70.0-79.9; D = 60.0-69.9; F = < 60
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