ME 3450: Properties of Materials

Discusses ceramic formation methods including: slip casting, hydroplastic forming, powder pressing, sintering, tape casting, and 3D printing of ceramics.

Introduces clays, refractory ceramics, abrasive ceramics, and cements.

Introduces glass processing (pressing, blowing, drawing, fiber forming, and sheet processing (float process)) and glass heat treatments (annealing and tempering).

Introduces silicate materials (crystalline silica, fused silica, clays) and carbon materials (diamond and graphite)

Discusses ceramic crystal types (rock salt, zinc blende, cesium chloride, fluorite, rutile, perovskite, and spinel), theoretical density, and ceramic defects (Frenkel, Schottky, substitutional/interstitial).

Introduces ceramic crystal structure: cation & anion radii, minimum cation size, effect of radii ratio on coordination number and structure

Discusses addition polymerization, condensation polymerization, compression molding, injection molding, extrusion, and 3D printing

Introduces the phenomena of crystallization, melting, and glass transition in polymers

Discusses mechanical properties of polymers, mechanisms, and viscoelasticity

Introduces basic definitions of polymers and how they differ from metals.

Second of a 2-part module on polymer characterization that covers isomerism, stereoisomerism, geometric isomerism, thermoplastics, thermosets, copolymers, and crystallinity.

First of a 2-part module on polymer characterization that covers: chemistry, shape, size, and structure.