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CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Aerospace Engineering
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 15338
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: Aerospace Materials I
DESCRIPTION
- Solidification of Metals. Generation of the Microstructure. Metal Casting Processes. Cast Structures Defects in Castings. - Metal forming processes. Work hardening. Recovery, Recrystallization and Grain Growth. Effect of metal forming processes on properties and microstructure. Formability. -Phase Diagrams. Invariant Reactions. Influence of alloying elements. Equilibrium phase transformation. - Non-equilibrium phase transformations. TTT diagrams: ITT and CCT. Heat Treatments: Quenching, Tempering, Annealing, Normalizing. Hardenability -Introduction to Fracture. Types of Fracture. Fracture modes. Fracture mechanics. Stress concentration. Griffiths theory. Stress intensity factor. Fracture toughness and Impact test. Brittle Ductile transition. - Introduction to Fatigue. High cycle fatigue. Low cycle fatigue. Effect of variable cycles. Fatigue crack growth.Structural features of fatigue. Designing against fatigue failure -Creep. Creep curve. Effect of stress and temperature on creep. Creep stages. Creep design and life prediction. Developing creep-resistant materials. - Corrosion. Basic electrochemical corrosion. Types of corrosion. Corrosion control and prevention. High temperature corrosion. - Friction. Wear. Friction and wear tests. Lubricants. Wear and friction in metal-working processes. Materials selection for tribological system. - Designation of Aluminium Alloys. Heat treatable aluminium alloys. Non heat treatable aluminium alloy. Applications of Al alloys in aerospace. Mg alloys. - Designation of Titanium alloys. Properties of Ti alloys. Heat Treatments for Ti alloys. Applications. - Ultra high strength steels. PH stainless steels. Maraging Steels. - Ni-based alloys and superalloys. Properties and applications. - Intermetallics in aerospace. Properties and applications. - Main surface treatments: Galvanizing; Electrodepostion; Organic Coatings; CVD; PVD: Thermal Spraying. Thermochemical Treatments. Thermal Barrier Coatings. - Introduction to joining processes. Welding. Welding processes for aerospace applications. - Common NDT method. Visual Inspection. Liquid Penetrants. Magnetic Particle. Eddy Current. Radiographic. Ultrasonic Acoustic Emissions. Method comparison.
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