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Materials Science and Engineering 533
Modeling of Materials Processing Methods
Catalog Data:
Development and application of simple mathematical models of selected solidification processing methods, solid state processing methods, and vapor phase processing methods. Sp Qtr. Required.
Prerequisites:
3rd year standing in engineering or permission of instructor.
Time Distribution:
Three-48 minute lectures per week
Objectives:
To provide student with a knowledge of the principles involved in a variety of selected material processing operations which are technologically important in a different categories of materials (metals, ceramics, semiconductors, and polymers). Meet ABET Criteria 3 Outcomes a, b, c, d, e, g, h, i and k.
Textbooks:
Jonathan A. Dantzig and Charles L. Tucker, Modeling in Materials Processing, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Other supplemental reading will be provided.
Topics/Content:
1. Review of Fundamentals
- Coordinate systems, scalars, vectors
- Scalar and vector operators, differentiation of vectors, transformation of coordinates
- Introduction to MathematicaTM
2. Basics of Numerical Computation
- Errors and norms, computer arithmetic, condition and stability
- Finding roots of nonlinear equations
- Numerical quadrature
- Solution of ODE and system of ODEs
- Linear least squares and nonlinear fitting
3. Model Construction and Simplification
- What is a model; pendulum; one-dimensional traffic flow
- Mass, momentum, energy balance
- Unit system, non-dimensionalization, dimensional analysis
4. Diffusion
- Steady-state heat conduction in solids
- Transient heat conduction
- Conduction with phase change
- Solid-state diffusion
- Solidification microstructure development
5. Fluid Flow
- Newtonian flow in a thin channel, other laminar flows
- Free surfaces and moving boundaries
- Flow with significant inertia
- Solid-state diffusion
- Solidification microstructure development
6. Selected Materials Processing Problems
- Nucleation / growth
- Corrosion, erosion
- Creep, sintering
- Coupled kinetics: corrosion, 2nd phase growth
Laboratory Projects:
Homework as well as term project will require computer lab time
Grading Plan:
40% midterm, 40% final, 20% term project.
Professional Component Content:
Engineering Science: 2.5 credits or 83%.
Engineering Design: 0.5 credits or 17%.
Design Component Content:
In lectures students learn the principles of building and solving mathematical models, interpreting their results, and carrying out optimization. In the term project, students must exercise their judgments and initiatives to define and solve problems related to materials science and engineering.
Relation to Program Objectives:
1. This course covers the fundamental concepts in materials processing (Objective 1).
2. Students have the opportunity to exercise fundamental concepts in building mathematical models of materials behavior (Objective 1 and 2).
3. Students have the opportunity to understand the relationships between processing and resulting microstructure (Objective 1).
4. This course prepares students for graduate research and employment in the area of engineering design and process modeling (Objective 2).
Academic Integrity, Academic Misconduct
Academic misconduct may be found in any action that tends to distort the accurate assessment of any student’s individual accomplishments that are evaluated for the purpose of grading or conferring academic credit. Note that a student may be guilty of academic misconduct, for example, by cheating, collaborating, plagiarizing, or by allowing another student to cheat, collaborate, or plagiarize. Note also that the distortion applies, for example, to exams, homework assignments, and laboratory work. To the extent that any class activity (for example: attendance or participation) is used for evaluation for the purpose of grading or conferring academic credit, falsifying or distorting such activity, or permitting another student to falsify or distort such activity, represents academic misconduct.
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Course-specific exceptions or amplifications to the departmental and university statements outlined above will be provided by the faculty instructor in writing, preferably as part of the course syllabus.
Note: Students should not request nor accept guidance on these matters from a teaching assistant, fellow student, or anyone other than the faculty instructor of record for this course.
Disabilities Statement
Any student who feels s/he may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact the Office for Disability Services at 614-292-3307 in room 150 Pomerene Hall to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. (URL: http://www.ods.ohio-state.edu/)
Advice on such matters is also available from the MSE department’s undergraduate adviser (1xx-6xx courses) and graduate coordinator (7xx-9xx courses) whose offices may be found in room 477 Watts Hall.
Megan Daniels, Undergraduate Advisor, (614) 292-3145, e-mail Megan concerning the MSE undergrad studies
Mark Cooper, Graduate Studies Coordinator, (614) 292-7280, e-mail Mark concerning the MSE graduate studies
