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Thermodynamics of Materials

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is to provide students with by background necessary to: • Enrich the student’s knowledge about the importance of the thermodynamics of materials, • Train the students to specify the processing parameters and their effect on the material/alloy properties. • Develop the student's ability to design/tailor a material (alloy) to meet specified properties.
  • Course Goals
  • Good Health and Well-being
  • Gender Equality
  • Clean Water and Sanitation
  • Affordable and Clean Energy
  • Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Climate Action

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Treatment of the Laws of Thermodynamics and Their Applications to Equilibrium and the Properties of Materials. Gibbs Free Energy and Phase Diagrams, Describing the State of an Alloy, The Chemical Potential, Stored Energy in Solids, Isotropic and Anisotropic Material Properties, Elastic Work, Entropy Contents in Materials, Generalized Conditions for Equilibrium, the Gibbs Phase Rule and Its Applications, Solution Thermodynamics, Unstable Solutions, Equilibrium Conditions for Solid Solutions, Equilibrium Conditions for Charged Species, Introduction to Surface Thermodynamics. Aspects of Statistical Thermodynamics as they relate to Macroscopic Equilibrium Phenomena. Introduction to Modeling of Thermodynamics Properties of Multiphase Equilibrium. Thermodynamic activity in solid and liquid systems, Gibbs free energy of solutions, binary phase diagrams, equilibrium constant, reaction equilibrium in gases, heats of reactions, stoichiometric phases with complex gas phases, mixed gas thermodynamics, Ellingham diagrams.
  • Arabic Description

    Treatment of the Laws of Thermodynamics and Their Applications to Equilibrium and the Properties of Materials. Gibbs Free Energy and Phase Diagrams, Describing the State of an Alloy, The Chemical Potential, Stored Energy in Solids, Isotropic and Anisotropic Material Properties, Elastic Work, Entropy Contents in Materials, Generalized Conditions for Equilibrium, the Gibbs Phase Rule and Its Applications, Solution Thermodynamics, Unstable Solutions, Equilibrium Conditions for Solid Solutions, Equilibrium Conditions for Charged Species, Introduction to Surface Thermodynamics. Aspects of Statistical Thermodynamics as they relate to Macroscopic Equilibrium Phenomena. Introduction to Modeling of Thermodynamics Properties of Multiphase Equilibrium. Thermodynamic activity in solid and liquid systems, Gibbs free energy of solutions, binary phase diagrams, equilibrium constant, reaction equilibrium in gases, heats of reactions, stoichiometric phases with complex gas phases, mixed gas thermodynamics, Ellingham diagrams.
  • Department
    Design and Production Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (25) + tr.Major Assessment (20 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 25% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + tr.Oral/Practical (10) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 0, Lab Hours: 1
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3
  • 1. Gaskell, D.R. and Laughlin, D.E., 2017. Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials. CRC press.
  • 2. Jiang, Q., Wen, Z., Jiang, Q. and Wen, Z., 2011. Thermodynamics of phase transitions. Thermodynamics of Materials, pp.157-206.
  • 3. Devereux, O.F., 1983. Topics in metallurgical thermodynamics. John Wiley and Sons, 605 Third Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016, U. S. A, 1983.