327-0501-AAL Metals I
| Semester | Autumn Semester 2018 |
| Lecturers | R. Spolenak |
| Periodicity | every semester recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Comment | Enrolment ONLY for MSc students with a decree declaring this course unit as an additional admission requirement. Any other students (e.g. incoming exchange students, doctoral students) CANNOT enrol for this course unit. |
| Abstract | Repetition and advancement of dislocation theory. Mechanical properties of metals: hardening mechanisms, high temperature plasticity, alloying effects. Case studies in alloying to illustrate the mechanisms. |
| Learning objective | Repetition and advancement of dislocation theory. Mechanical properties of metals: hardening mechanisms, high temperature plasticity, alloying effects. Case studies in alloying to illustrate the mechanisms. |
| Content | Dislocation theory: Properties of dislocations, motion and kinetics of dislocations, dislocation-dislocation and dislocation-boundary interactions, consequences of partial dislocations, sessile dislocations Hardening theory: a. solid solution hardening: case studies in copper-nickel and iron-carbon alloys b. particle hardening: case studies on aluminium-copper alloys High temperature plasticity: thermally activated glide power-law creep diffusional creep: Coble, Nabarro-Herring deformation mechanism maps Case studies in turbine blades superplastizity alloying effects |
| Lecture notes | https://www.met.mat.ethz.ch/education/lect_scripts |
| Literature | Gottstein, Physikalische Grundlagen der Materialkunde, Springer Verlag Haasen, Physikalische Metallkunde, Springer Verlag Rösler/Harders/Bäker, Mechanisches Verhalten der Werkstoffe, Teubner Verlag Porter/Easterling, Transformations in Metals and Alloys, Chapman & Hall Hull/Bacon, Introduction to Dislocations, Butterworth & Heinemann Courtney, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, McGraw-Hill |