45228 - General Technologies of Materials (Graduate Course)

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0454)

Learning outcomes

Aim will be to increase the basic knowledge about engineering material choice and manufacturing technology with regards to heat treatments sequences.

Course contents

LECTURES
HARDNESS and microhardness measurements and machines (Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell).

STEELS.
Fick's laws. TTT and CCT diagrams. Quenching and Tempering. Heat Treatments of steels. Tenifer, Sulf-inuz, Sulf BT. Materials choice. Weldability and material choice.

STAINLESS STEELS.
Introduction to stainless steels. Shaffler's diagrams. Martensitic, ferritic, austenitic, duplex and precipitation hardening stainless steels. Heat treatments and choice for stainless steels.

ALUMINIUM AND ALUMINIUM ALLOY. Introducion to Aluminium and to Aluminium Alloys.  Effect of main alloys: Cu, Si, Mg, Zn, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cr, Ti, Sn. Designation. Heat treatment of Aluminum Alloys. Foundry processes, deformation and machining of Aluminium Alloy. Welding of Aluminium Alloys: methods and problems.

PLASTICS. Introduction to plastics.Thermoset materials. Crosslinking. Thermoset types, general properties, manufacturing technology and types. Phenolics (PF), Amino Plastics (UF & MF), Polyester Themosets and Unsaturated Polyester (UP), Epoxies (EP), Polyurethanes (PUR). Thermoplastic materials (Commodity Plastics). Thermoplastic types, general properties, manufacturing technology and types. Polyethylene (PE), Polypropylene (PP), Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC). Designing with Plastics.

EXERCISES & LABORATORY ACTIVITIES
A) Hardness measurements by means of Rockwell and Vichers machines on to steels and Aluminium alloys. DIEM Laboratory.
B) Experimental activities by metallographical microscopy.
C) Prediction of structures in steels due to heat treatments.
D) Studies about complex mechanical parts: material choice, heat treatment and machining sequences.
E) Visit to a Heat Treatment Plant.

Readings/Bibliography

Veschi, L'acciaio ed il suo impiego, Patron, Bologna

Di Caprio, Gli acciai inossidabili, Hoepli, Milano

Veschi, L'alluminio e le leghe leggere, Hoepli, Milano

Materie plastiche, Appunti fotocopiati presso copisteria di fianco alla Biblioteca Dore

Rame e sue leghe, Appunti fotocopiati presso copisteria di fianco alla Biblioteca Dore

Teaching methods

Lectures and exercises.

Assessment methods

Written and oral examination.

Teaching tools

Lectures.
Exercises and Laboratory Activities

Office hours

See the website of Giampaolo Campana