Course Plan- Mechanical Behaviour of Materials

Name of Program B.Tech (MME) Semester-4 Academic Year 2022-23 Period: Jan 23- April 23
Course Title Mechanical Behaviour of Materials
Course Code MME 212
Course Type Departmental Core
No of credits L T P (3 0 0 ) Total credits = 3
Programme B.Tech. in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering
Department Materials & Metallurgical Engineering
Pre-requisites’ Mathematics, Physics, Applied Mechanics/Strength of Materials, Physical Metallurgy
Course Coordinator Dr C Sasikumar
Teaching Hours 40 Hours

Course Description
This course is designed for undergraduate students of materials science and metallurgical engineering. The
outcome of this course would be to understand the students the basic concept and mechanism of deformation
behavior of material under elastic and plastic regions. Additionally failure mechanisms under elastic and plastic
fracture mechanisms: creep, fatigue etc.

Course Outcomes

1. Understand the importance of the mechanical properties of materials in engineering design

2. The ability to understand and apply stress and strain definitions in 2D, 3D, along with simple constitutive
laws.
3. A capability of evaluating and analyzing mechanical properties of materials.
4. Determine how well materials perform mechanically both in the design stage and when they are used in the
field.
5. An understanding of plastic deformation and ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
involving plastic deformation, fatigue and fracture.
6. Understanding the fundamentals of fracture mechanics, calculating and interpreting material fracture
behavior using the Griffith equation.
7. Understand the mechanisms that strengthen materials, and be capable of designing methods to improve
their strength and toughness.
8. The ability to determine fracture mechanics parameters through experimental techniques and their
requirements, analytical methods, and crack and stress analysis.
9. Understand the mechanical properties of the materials at high temperatures and calculate the thermal
stress/shock parameters that are used to determine fracture initiation and propagation.

Course Content

Introduction to deformation behaviour: Concepts of stresses and strains, types of loading, stress - strain response
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for metal, ceramic and polymer, elastic region, yield point, plastic deformation, necking and fracture, Bonding and
Material Behaviour, theoretical strength in metals and ceramics, Elasticity Theory: The State of Stress and strain,
stress and strain tensor, transformation, principal stress and strain, elastic stress-strain relation, anisotropy, Yielding
and Plastic, Deformation: Hydrostatic and Deviatoric stress, Octahedral stress, yield criteria and yield surface,
texture and distortion of yield surface, true stress and true strain, flow rules, strain hardening, Ramberg-Osgood
equation, stress - strain relation in plasticity dislocations, slip and glide, dislocation generation - Frank Read and
grain boundary sources, stress and strain field around dislocations, force on dislocation - self-stress, dislocation
interactions, partial dislocations, twinning, dislocation movement and strain rate, deformation behavior of single
crystal, critical resolved shear stress (CRSS), deformation of poly-crystals - Hall-Petch and other hardening
mechanisms, grain size effect, Fracture: types of fractures, KIC, elasto-plastic fracture mechanics, JIC,
Measurement and ASTM standards, Fatigue: S-N curves, Low and high cycle fatigue, Life cycle prediction,
Deformation at High temperature: different stages of creep, creep and stress rupture, creep mechanisms and creep
resistant alloys.
Teaching Learning A. Lectures
Activities B. Problem Solving
C. Concept Mapping
D. Questioning
E. Formative Quizzes
F. Small group activities

Course A. Assignments and Performance in the class 20

Assessment B. Class Test 10
Methods C. Mid Term Examination 20
D. End Term Examination 50
Books and References
1. Mechanical Metallurgy George Ellwood. Dieter, McGraw- Hill
2. Mechanical Behavior of Materials William F. Hosford, Cambridge University Press
3. Mechanical Metallurgy: Principles and Applications, Marc A. Meyers, Krishan Kumar Chawla , Published by
Prentice-Hall, Inc.
4. Mechanical Properties of Materials, Joshua Pelleg
5. Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Norman E. Dowling, Pearson
6. Dislocation and Mechanical Behaviour of Materials,M.N. Shetty, PHI Learning
7. Fracture Mechanics, Nestor Percz, Springer
8. Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications , T.L. Anderson, Taylor and Francis

Links to online references

1. https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/113/106/113106101/
2. https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/113/104/113104104/
3. https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/113/104/113104105/
4. https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/113/104/113104085/
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Lecture Plan
Date Lecture Topic
No.
1. Elasticity: Introduction, Definitions and Units
2. Engineering Stress, Strain Curve: Strength and Ductility

1st week of 3. Engineering Stress, Strain Curve: UTS and Necking,

Jan. 2023
4. True Stress-True Strain Curve and Necking Criterion

5. Atomistic basis of elasticity

6. Stress at a point & Poison’s ratio

7.
Normal stresses and Shear Stresses,
2nd week 8. , Stress Tensor: Representation of stresses and their independence
of Jan.
2023 9. Plane stress and Stress on oblique plane: Plane stress transformation equations in 2D

10. Mohr’s Circle of Stress

11. Mohr’s Circle and Special Conditions

12. Principal stresses and planes using Eigen values and vectors, Principal stresses and strains
13. Plane Stress Problems
3rd week
of Jan.
14. Principle Stresses in 3D, Stress invariants, 3D Mohr’s circle
2023
15. General Transformation of Stress Tensors and Einstein summation Notation

16. Concept of Strain: Normal strain and shear strain

17. Hydrostatic and deviatoric stress state

18. Elastic stress strain relations & Elastic constants

19. Relation between shear modulus, G and Young’s Modulus, E
4th week 20. Anisotropy of elastic behavior, Why 21 elastic constants needed for isotropic elastic materials
of Jan.
2023
21. Elastic constants and symmetry

22. Compliance and Stiffness Tensor and Elastic Strain Energy

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23. Yielding criteria for crystalline solids

24. Class Test

25. Atomistic Mechanism of Yielding and Slip

26. Resolved and Critical Resolved Shear Stress: Schmid’s Law

27. Dislocations: Edge and Screw, Burgers Vector and Dislocation Line
28. Mixed Dislocation and Burgers Circuit and Disregistry
1st week of
Feb. 2023
29. Peierls-Nabarro Stress, Peierls Stress

30. Geometrical properties of dislocations

31. Glide and Cross-slip of dislocations

2nd week 32. Climb and dislocation motion leading to plastic strain
of Feb.
33. Glide and Climb force on Dislocations
2023
34. Peach Koehler Equation
35. Stress field around screw dislocation
36. Stress field around edge dislocation
37. Strain energy of dislocation
38. Strain energy and line tension of dislocation
3rd week of 39. Strain hardening and dislocation interaction
Feb. 2023
40. Dislocations interactions, Dislocations stable configurations and Taylor Relation

41. Frank Read Source of Dislocations

42. Five Independent slip systems for ductility

43. Stacking faults in FCC

44. Lomer Cottrell Locks

4TH week 45. Superlattice dislocations and Antiphase Boundaries

of Feb. 46. Stacking faults in BCC
2023
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47. Image force on dislocations

48. Dislocations intersections Jogs and Kinks

49. Strain Hardening Stages in FCC single crystal

1st week of 50. Solid solution strengthening and dislocation interactions with solutes
March.
2023 51. Solid solution strengthening and different interactions

52. Class Test

2nd and 3rd 53. Students activities and Mid-Term Exam

Week March
2023
4th week of 54. Cottrell atmosphere and Yield Point Phenomenon
March.
2023 55. Precipitation Hardening and Dispersion Strengthening

56. Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Materials

57. Grain boundary strengthening and Hall-Petch Relation

1st week of 58. Grain boundary model, Geometrically necessary dislocations & Statistically stored dislocations
April. 2023
59. Twinning in crystals, Deformation twinning in FCC and BCC

60. Fracture and Theoretical Cohesive Strength of Materials

61. Griffith Theory of Fracture, Griffith theory of brittle fracture

2nd week 62. Fracture mechanics, Strain energy release rate & Fracture Toughness
of April.
2023 63. Fracture Modes and Stress Concentration

3rd week of 64. Fracture Mechanics, LEFM vs EPFM, J integral

April. 2023
65. Creep Deformation, Creep in Materials, Creep Mechanisms, Power Law

4th week of 66. End -Term Exam

April. 2023