Università Roma Tre

Introduction to the World of Materials
- Historical background, evolution of materials, an internal look at their structure, and an overview of transformations
- Properties and performance of components

Basic Properties and Elastic Behavior
- Intrinsic properties
- Extrinsic properties
- Mechanical stress systems: rigid body, deformable body, continuum mechanics; linear elasticity, Hooke's law, elastic behavior of isotropic solids

Composition and Structure of Matter at Different Dimensional Scales
- Composition: molecules, chemical bonding, Condon-Morse curves; ionic materials, molecular materials
- Thermodynamic origin of elasticity
- Structures: amorphous and crystalline, Bravais lattices, and Miller indices
- Defects in crystalline solids: point, line, and surface defects

Mechanical Behavior of Materials
- Influence of T (temperature) and t (time) on mechanical behavior depending on the nature of the material
- Static tensile stresses at low T: stress-strain curve (elastic field, plastic field, critical points)
- Mechanical properties: ductility, hardness, brittleness, resilience, and toughness (property measurement techniques)
- Fracture mechanics: Griffith's energy theory, stress intensity factor, fracture toughness
- Dynamic stresses: fatigue, Wohler curve, Paris-Erdogan law

Single-Phase and Multi-Phase Systems
- Thermodynamics of systems: thermodynamics of condensed states, basic concepts, first law, second law, equilibrium conditions, non-equilibrium states, combined first and second laws, characteristic state functions
- Solid-state solubility: cooling curves of single-component systems, aggregation state, Hume-Rothery rules, solid solutions, phases
- Solubility dependence on composition, temperature, and pressure: Gibbs rule and lever rule, Gibbs energy, Gibbs curves, phase equilibria in binary systems
- Solid-state phase transformations: diffusion mechanisms, activation energy, and Fick’s laws
- Solidification kinetics and microstructures: nucleation and growth, key thermodynamic transformations, microstructures

Introduction to the Main Classes of Metallic Materials
- Iron-based alloys: classification of steels and cast irons, main phase diagrams, classification of specific heat treatments; special steels, stainless steels, and applications
- Titanium alloys: properties, processes – applications
- Aluminum alloys: properties, processes – applications
- Superalloys: properties, processes – applications

Introduction to the Main Classes of Non-Metallic Materials
- Polymers and polymer matrix composites: properties, processes, applications
- Ceramics: properties, processes, an introduction to Weibull statistics – applications
- Recap, Complements, In-Depth Topics, and Numerical Exercises for Each Subject

W.D. Callister, Jr. and D.G. Rethwisch
- Materials Science and Engineering
Publisher: Wiley

Vincenzo Casciaro and Carlo Mapelli
- Science and Technology of Metallic Materials
Publisher: CittàStudi Edizioni

Lucio Vergani, Maurizio Carboni
- Exercises in Materials Science and Technology
Publisher: Esculapio

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