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RKV Review of last class

 Symmetry

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 The plane can be mostly tiled by equilateral


triangle, by square or by regular hexagonal.

Why there is no tiling by regular pentagons?

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Why there is no tiling by regular pentagons?

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


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Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


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ma
2Cos(360º/n)=m

m is an interger

n= 1,2,3,4,6

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n= 1,2,3,4,6
Therefore in the lattice, one-, two-, three-, four-, and sixfold
rotation points are only allowed .
Five fold, sevenfold and eightfold symmetries are not possible in
crystallography.

Five fold Eight fold


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Five fold and eightfold symmetries in Nature

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Football

Is it possible to fill all by hexagon? No


Why football out layer is not fully filled by hexagon?

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Hexagon is a crystal not a lattice


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 Most elemental metals (about 90%) crystallize upon solidification

into three densely packed crystal structures:

 Body centered cubic (BCC)

 Face centered cubic (FCC) and

 Hexagonal close-packed (HCP)

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 Number of atoms per unit cell

Corner = 1/8
Face = ½
Body = 1

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


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RKV Characteristics of unit cell

 Coordination number All the lattice points in a Bravais


lattice have equivalent positions in
space and they have identical
surroundings.
Therefore, each point has the same
number of nearest neighbours (points
that are the closest to it) and this
number is called the coordination
number

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 Filling Factor

fraction of the total crystal volume filled


with atoms

also known as “atomic packing factor” or “packing fraction”

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


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 Density

n = number of atoms associated with each unit cell


A= atomic weight
Vc = volume of the unit cell
NA =Avogadro’s number (6.023 x 1023 atoms/mol)

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Sequence arrangement

A
A
A
A

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Sequence arrangement

A
B
A
B
A

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Sequence arrangement

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RKV Stacking sequences

Sequence arrangement

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


RGUKT
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Sequence arrangement

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


RGUKT
RKV Stacking sequences

Sequence arrangement

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


RGUKT
RKV Stacking sequences

Sequence arrangement

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


RGUKT
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Sequence arrangement

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


RGUKT
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Sequence arrangement

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


RGUKT
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Sequence arrangement

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


RGUKT
RKV Stacking sequences
Sequence arrangement

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


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Sequence arrangement

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Sequence arrangement

ABCABC ABABAB

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 Number of atoms per unit cell 1

 Coordination number 6

 Atomic Packing Factor

a=2r Ans: 0.52


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Body centered cubic

 Number of atoms per unit cell 2

 Coordination number 8

 Atomic Packing Factor

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Body centered cubic

 Number of atoms per unit cell 2

 Coordination number 8

 Atomic Packing Factor

Ans: 0.68
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Face centered cubic

 Number of atoms per unit cell 4

 Coordination number 12

 Atomic Packing Factor

Dr. RAMESH G / Assistant Professor / Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering


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Face centered cubic

 Number of atoms per unit cell 4

 Coordination number 12

 Atomic Packing Factor

Ans: 0.74
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