Introduction To Engineering Materials (Lecture-01)
Introduction To Engineering Materials (Lecture-01)
Material Science:
Primarily concerned with the search for basic knowledge about internal
structure, properties and processing of materials and their complex
interactions/relationships
Engineering Materials
Material Engineering:
Mainly concerned with the use of fundamental and applied knowledge of
materials, so that they may be converted into products, as needed or desired
by the society (bridges materials knowledge from basic sciences to
engineering disciplines).
Note:
Material science is the basic knowledge end of materials knowledge
spectrum, where as, material engineering is applied knowledge end and
there is no demarcation line between the two subjects of interest
Why Material Science & Engineering is important to
technologists?
• The engineers search for high temp material so that gas turbines, jet
engines etc. can operate more efficiently and wear resistance
materials to manufacture bearing materials
Note: All these demands may be fulfilled when the internal structure
and engineering properties are known to an engineer or
technologist
Classification
It is the systematic arrangement or division of materials into groups
on the basis of some common characteristic
1. According to General Properties
2. According to Nature of Materials
3. According to Applications
1. According to General Properties
(a). Metals (e.g. iron, aluminium, copper, zinc, lead, etc) Iron as the
base metal, and range from plain carbon (> 98 % Fe) to
(i). Ferrous: high alloy steel (< 50 % alloying elements), e.g. cast iron,
wrought iron, steel, alloys like high-speed steel, spring steel, etc
(ii). Non-Ferrous: Rest of the all other metals and their alloys, e.g.
copper, aluminium, zinc lead, alloys like brass, bronze, duralumin, etc