Foundations of Materials Science
Objectives
The course aims to provide a fundamental understanding of materials’ structure, diffusion processes and phase diagrams. The course will provide an insight into the chemical and physical properties of the main classes of materials (metals, polymers, ceramics) and the relationships between microstructure and properties (in particular mechanical). The course will introduce basic concepts about rheology needed to understand additive manufacturing processes.
Topics
Materials structure
Defects and diffusion
Mechanical properties
Phase diagrams
Properties and structure of metals, polymers and ceramics
Rheology
Required Skills
Basics of inorganic and organic chemistry and of concepts related to differential calculus.
Course Modality and Verification of Learning
The course is offered on-site and on-line (synchronous and asynchronous) with video recordings, hand-outs, etc. of the lectures available off-line (*). The teaching activity includes theoretical lessons and numerical exercises. The results will be assessed through an oral (online if needed) examination. During the examination, the teachers can ask to solve simple numerical problems.
(*) Each registered participant acknowledges that the material distributed in the frame of the courses, available for the duration of the current edition of the Postgraduate program, is protected by copyright and delivered for educational purposes and personal use only. The participant agrees and undertakes not to forward, publish, disclose, distribute, disseminate – in any form or manner – such a material without written consent of the author(s) of the material. Unless otherwise explicitly allowed by the speaker in written form, no recordings of the online lectures can be made.
