Course

PHYS-307: Physics of materials

Lectures in this course (14)

Atomic Bonding: Course Introduction and Chapter 1

Covers course organization, historical material influence, and dislocation interaction processes.

Crystallography: Atomic Bonding, Structures, and Diffraction

Covers crystallography, atomic bonding, structures, diffraction, and coordination numbers in materials.

Explores the theory of elasticity, including Hooke's law, strain tensors, stress tensor, and thermodynamics of deformation.

Defects in Materials: Structure and Behavior

Explores defects in materials, grain boundaries, grain coarsening kinetics, the glass transition, and vacancy creation.

Defects in Crystals

Explores defects in crystals, including point defects, dislocations, grain boundaries, and their impact on material behavior.

Diffusion: Fundamental Concepts

Covers the fundamental concepts of diffusion, including Fick's laws and temperature dependence, demonstrated with examples.

Plastic Deformation: Introduction to the Dislocation Model

Covers plastic deformation, dislocation model, stages, shear stress, distortion, dislocation loops, strain hardening, and crystal growth.

Dislocations in Face-Centered Cubic Metals: Thompson Tetrahedron

Explores Thompson tetrahedron, dislocations in metals, Shockley partial dislocations, and stacking faults.

Elasticity Theory of Dislocations

Explores the stress field around dislocations, equilibrium equations, conservation laws, and energy calculations in face-centered cubic metals.

Kinetics of Dislocations

Explores the kinetics of dislocations, stress fields, and interactions with point defects and extended defects.

Thermally Activated Dislocation Motion

Explores thermally activated dislocation motion, covering Gibbs free energy, activation volume, climb velocity, and steady-state creep.

Anelasticity and Mechanical Spectroscopy

Explores anelasticity, defects, thermodynamics, internal energy, dislocations, and mechanical spectroscopy.

Phase Transformations I: Solidification

Explores phase transformations, focusing on solidification, covering topics such as mix energy, entropy, enthalpy, nucleation, dendritic growth, eutectic solidification, and constitutional supercooling.

Phase Transformations II: solid-state transformations

Explores solid-state transformations, nucleation, kinetics, hardness testing, thermodynamics, and shape memory effects in materials.