Syllabus
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Course Code: ELECTIVE- I MTIP-107 Course Name: Advanced Engineering Materials |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Introduction to advanced Engineering materials: Classes of Materials and their usage, Historical Perspective,
Intelligent Materials, Structural Materials, Functional Materials, Primitive Functions of Intelligent Materials, Intelligence
inherent in Materials, Materials Intelligently Harmonizing with humanity, Biomimetic. Smart Materials and Structural Systems: Introduction, Actuator Materials, Sensing Technologies, Micro-sensors, Intelligent systems, Hybrid Smart Materials, Passive Sensory Smart Structures, Reactive Actuator based smart structures, Active Sensing and Reactive smart structures, smart skins, Aero-elastic tailoring of airfoils, Synthesis of future smart systems. |
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| 2 | Electrocaloric Effect: An Introduction, History of Electrocaloric Cooling, Mechanism of working of Electrocaloric
Cooling, Electrocaloric Materials, Performance of Electrocaloric Materials. Heat Resistant Steels: Conventional Heat-Resistant Steels, Silicon-Bearing High Chromium Heat-Resistant Steels, Nitride-Strengthened Reduced Activation Heat-Resistant Steels, China Low Activation Martensitic Steel NitrideStrengthened Steels, Microstructural Stability |
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| 3 | Smart Micro-systems: Silicon Capacitive Accelerometer, Piezo-resistive Pressure sensor, Conductometric Gas
sensor, An Electrostatic Comb-drive, Magnetic Microrelay, Portable Blood Analyser, Piezoelectric Inkjet Print Head. Buckyballs to robotics: Bucky ball, Nano Structure of Fullerene, Carbon Nanotubes, Nano Diamond, Boron nitride nanotubes, Single electron transistors, Molecular machine, Nano Biometrics, Nano Robots, |
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| 4 | Nano-Alloys: Introduction, Chemical Synthesis: General Concepts, Reduction of Metallic Salts, The Organometallic
Route: Thermal Decomposition Method, Other Chemical Methods for synthesis of Nano-alloys, Physical Routes for
synthesis of Nano-Alloys; Experimental Techniques and Examples. Shape memory alloys (SMA): Shape memory effect and the metallurgical phenomenon of SMA, Types of SMA, One way and Two way Shape memory effect. Temperature assisted shape memory effect, Applications. |
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