Design with Advanced Engineering Materials

Course ID	Course Name	Instructor	Room Numbessr	Time
ME5207	Design with Advanced Engineering Materials

Description

Understanding selection of materials for various engineering applications, high temperature materials (super-alloys), engineering plastics, elastomers, ceramics, and coatings.

Course Content

Engineering Design process and the role of materials; materials classification and their properties; material property charts; selection of materials based on function, objective, constraints and free variables; examples of material selection for typical applications; Computer aided materials selection. Selection of process based on material classification; pencil curve approach; material selection for multiple constraints and multiple objective cases; multiple constraints and conflicting objectives. Co-selection of material and shape; concept of macroscopic and microscopic shape factors; Four quadrant method of material selection. General Properties of plastics, polymers and elastomers; visco-elastic properties; short-term and long-term properties of plastics; mathematical modeling of plastic properties; Maxwell, Kelvin-Voigt Models; fatigue and fracture of plastics; selection of plastics based on mechanical properties, degradation due to environment, wear; Design methods for snap fits; case studies. Fundamentals of fiber reinforced plastics; Stress, strain analysis of continuous fiber composites, rule of mixtures, general deformation behavior of laminates. Introduction to high temperature materials; families of super alloys and their characteristics; creep and fatigue resistance of super alloys; role of precipitates in strengthening of super alloys; repair of super alloys after creep damage; coatings for high temperature materials. Fundamentals of ceramics, general properties, applications of ceramics for critical applications. Design considerations. Surface treatment of materials using coatings; type of coatings; PVD and CVD coatings. Basics of electro-plating and electro-less plating.

Text Books

1. Ashby, M.F., “Materials Selection in Design”, Butterworth-Heinemann, 4/e, 2010.

2. Crawford, R. J., “Plastics Engineering”, Butterworth-Heinemann, 3/e, 2002.

3. Donachie, M. J. and Donachie, S. J., “Super alloys: A technical guide”, ASM International, 2002.

Reference Books

1. Carter, C.B., and Grant, N. M., “Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering”, Springer, 2007.

2. Bralla, J. C., “Design for Manufacturability Handbook”, McGraw-Hill Professional; 2/e, 1998.

Prerequisite

Consent of Teacher

Mr. Arnab Chakraborty received INAE's Innovative Student Project Award at Master's Level for the year 2022. He is one of the 8 awardees in 2022 and the only recipient from IIT Madras. The department is proud of this achievement and congratulations to Arnab and his research advisor Dr. Srikrishna Sahu

Congrajulation to Dr. Vimal Edachery, Department of Mechanical Engineering on receiving the "Young Tribologist Award" for excellence in research in the area of Tribology for young researcher, sponsored by Taiho Kogyo Tribology Research Foundation (TTRF Japan) at the IndiaTrib-2022.

Congratulation to Prof. Chakravarthy Balaji, Department of Mechanical Engineering on being invited to serve as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Elsevier for the period 2023-2025.

A book entitled "ஆராய்ச்சி என்றும் ஆனந்தம்” (The Joy of Research, Tamil edition)" by Prof. Chakravarthy Balaji, Department of Mechanical Engineering has been published by Ane Books Private Limited, New Delhi.

Prof. Arvind Pattamatta and Dr. Kameswararao Anupindi, Department of Mechanical Engineering of the 'International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research

Prof. K. Arul Prakash, Department of Applied Mechanics and Dr. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra, Department of Mechanical Engineering of the 'Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal'.

Prof. Dhiman Chatterjee and Dr. Shyama Prasad Das, Department of Mechanical Engineering of the 'International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment'.

A book 'Vapour-liquid Two Phase Flow and Phase Change' by Profs. Sarit Kumar Das and Dhiman Chatterjee, Department of Mechanical Engineering has been published by Ane Books.

Congratulations to Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan on being bestowed the 'National Tech Excellence Award 2022' under the category Woman Scientist in Translational Research (Senior) by the Technology Development Board, a Statutory Body under Department of Science & Technology.