Module Code - Title:
MT4002
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MATERIALS 1
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This is a course in Engineering Materials for students with no previous back-ground in the subject. It is designed to meet the needs of engineering, science and design students for a first materials course, emphasizing design applications.
Syllabus:
Introduction to engineering materials and their properties.
Price and availability of materials
The Elastic moduli (bonding between atoms, packing of atoms in solids, physical basis of YoungÆs modulus
Yield strength, tensile strength and ductility (dislocations and yielding in crystals, strengthening methods and plasticity of polycrystals)
Fast fracture and toughness (micromechanisms of fast fracture)
Fatigue failure (fatigue of cracked and uncracked components, mechanisms, design against fatigue)
Creep and creep fracture (kinetic theory of diffusion, mechanisms of creep and creep-resistant materials)
Design with materials
Case Studies and laboratory experiments incorporating examples of mechanical testing, failure analysis, design and materials selection.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Define the properties of materials like strength, stiffness, toughness etc.
Explain how these properties can be measured.
Describe the basic science that underlies each property.
Conduct basic materials selection for design applications.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
The mathematical analysis is kept as simple as possible while still retaining the essential physical understanding, and still arriving at results, which although approximate, are useful. Case Studies and laboratory experiments are widely used to demonstr
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
8-10 pratical laboratory experiments form the backbone of the module. These all require students to apply the scientific method.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
8-10 laboratory experiments, lectures, all assessed through online systems (SULIS)
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Not relevant
Prime Texts:
M.Ashby (2005)
Engineering Materials 1
, Butterworth Heinmann
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
fernanda.zamboni@ul.ie