Materials Engineer

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What is Materials Engineer?
Materials Engineer
 They develop, process, and test
materials used to create a range of
products, from computer chips and
aircraft wings to golf clubs and
biomedical devices. They study the
properties and structures of metals,
ceramics, plastics, composites,
nanomaterials, and other
substances in order to create new
materials that meet certain
mechanical, electrical, and
chemical requirements. They also
help select materials for specific
products and develop new ways to
use existing materials.
Types of Materials Engineer
Ceramic engineers develop ceramic materials and the processes for making them
into useful products, from high-temperature rocket nozzles to glass for LCD flat-panel
displays.
Composites engineers develop materials with special, engineered properties for
applications in aircraft, automobiles, and related products.
Metallurgical engineers specialize in metals, such as steel and aluminum, usually
in alloyed form with additions of other elements to provide specific properties.
Plastics engineers develop and test new plastics, known as polymers, for new
applications.
Semiconductor processing engineers apply materials science and engineering
principles to develop new microelectronic materials for computing, sensing, and
related applications.
 History of Materials Engineer
 Modern Era
Industrial
Revolution
Age of
Exploration
Middle
Ages
Iron Age
Stone &
Bronze Age
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Stone &
Bronze Age
 Begins with humans using
materials as found in
nature (wood, bone, stone,
bark, etc.), perhaps
changing only the shape.
 Interactions with native
metals and smelting of tin
and lead, redox reactions.
 Smelting of copper,
development of significant
mining operations.
Intentional alloying of
copper to make bronze..
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Iron Age
 Development of iron
smelting technology
 Widespread change that
lead to the decline in
bronze and spread of iron
as dominant technology.
 Role of iron in military
conquests. Development of
wootz steel in India and
Chinese cast iron.
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Middle Age
 Decrease in mining,
materials and technology
during “Dark Ages;”
decrease in precious metals
for coinage meant knights
had to be paid in land and
development of feudal
system
 Increased iron production
for heavy ploughs and
horse shoes
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Age of
Exploration
 Invention of printing press,
importance of alloying to produce
good type metal. Largescale
demand for weapons drove iron
industry; largescale mining
operations required financing; first
shareholder arrangements.
 Shortage of fuel for smelters and
foundries; transition from charcoal
to coal to coke.
 Role of Abraham Darby in mass
producing cast iron.
 Thomas Newcomen’s development
of the steam (atmospheric) engine;
first source of power that wasn’t
wind, water or muscle
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Industrial
Revolution
 Reasons it began in England.
James Watt and the first true
steam engine and use of new
engines to mine more coal, produce
cheaper iron.
 Rediscovery of cement/concrete;
setting underwater allowed
development of canal system.
 Development of railroads.
 Cast iron as the first new
structural material in thousands of
years.
 Development of glass technology to
allow larger pieces, more windows
 Modern Age
 Transition from iron to steel.
 Development of aluminum;
reactivity series and reasons that
aluminum wasn’t isolated earlier,
concurrent development of reliable
sources of electricity, Hall-Heroult
method.
 Development of synthetic polymers,
from South American rubber to
celluloid to Bakelite; role of global
conflict in development of synthetic
rubber.
 Role of new materials in
automobiles and airplanes.
 Semiconductors, transistors and
integrated circuits
 General Scope of Works
 Plan and evaluate new projects, consulting
with other engineers and managers as
necessary
 Prepare proposals and budgets, analyze
labor costs, write reports, and perform other
managerial tasks
 Supervise the work of technologists,
technicians, and other engineers and
scientists
 Design and direct the testing of processing
procedures
 Monitor how materials perform and
evaluate how they deteriorate
 Determine causes of product failure and
develop ways of overcoming such failure
 Evaluate technical specifications and
economic factors relating to the design
objectives of processes or products
 Evaluate the impact of materials processing
on the environment
 Local Companies
TKL Steel Corporation
o TKL located at Santa Cruz Manila
Philippines Deformed bars, angle
bars, GI pipes, wide flange, mild steel
plates, checkered plates, channel
bars, square tubing, rectangular
tubing, purlins, galvanized purlins,
sheet piles.
o Provides a caring relationship with
customers by giving them the peace
of mind they need with the assurance
of good customer care and quality
steel goods. With honest and
passionate service, TKL values both
customers and employees, providing
the trust they can build on.
 Powersteel
o Power steel no.1 steel supplier in
the Philippines was started at
Binondo, Manila and now it has
many branches. Steel bars,
aluminum products, steel pipes,
wide flange, hardware products,
steel purlins, stainless steel, brass
& copper, fitting for pipes, steel
plates, and sheet pile.
o the vision of Power Steel is to
provide quality steel products at a
competitive price to meet the
construction needs of the
customers. From households to
large corporations, we aim to be
the top of mind steel supplier in
Philippines
 Regan Industrial Sales,
INC.
o Regan Industrial Sales, Inc. (RISI)
was established on January 1968 at
Dagupan St. in Tondo Manila.
According to regan indutrial sales,
inc. “When it comes to construction
materials that are altogether strong,
durable, and ductile, steel products
are the best option, especially the
steel plates in the Philippines.”.
products of regain was the following;
black & galvanized ERW pipes and
seamless pipes, spiral pipes,
rectangular tubing or pipes, square
tubing or pipes, deformed bards, plain
round bar, wire rod, and cold rolled
shafting.
 Foreign Companies
 AK Steel Corp

o Based in West Chester, United

States. Established in 1899.
AK Steel Corp is a world leader
in the production of flat-rolled
carbon, stainless and electrical
steel products. It also produces
carbon and stainless electric
resistance welded tubular steel
products, iron ore and
metallurgical coal.
 ArcelorMittal SA

o ArcelorMittal is the world’s

leading steel and mining company.
The company operates in 60
countries and employs about
260,000 people worldwide.
ArcelorMittal is the largest steel
producer in the Americas, Africa
and Europe and a significant steel
producer in the CIS region, with a
growing presence in Asia,
including investments in China
and India. Arcelormittal has a
world-class mining business and is
one of the largest iron ore
producers in the world.
Carpenter Technology
Corp
o Based in Philadelphia, PA,
United States. Established in
1889. Carpenter Technology
Corp is a leading producer and
distributor of premium
specialty alloy-based materials,
including titanium nickel and
cobalt alloys for additive
manufacturing and soft
magnetics applications. It also
produces powder metals,
stainless steels, alloy steels,
and tool steels, as well as
drilling tools.
 Materials Engineer’s Software
MATLAB

 A desktop environment tuned

for iterative analysis and design
processes with a programming
language that expresses matrix
and array mathematics directly.
It includes the Live Editor for
creating scripts that combine
code, output, and formatted text
in an executable notebook.
OriginLab

 A proprietary computer program

for interactive scientific
graphing and data analysis. It is
produced by OriginLab
Corporation and runs on
Microsoft Windows. It has
inspired several platform-
independent open-source clones
like SciDAVis. Graphing support
in Origin includes various 2D/3D
plot types
ProCAST

Foundry tools to meet your

most challenging industrial
requirements. ProCAST
software, based on powerful
Finite Element Technology, is
well suited to also predict
distortions and residual
stresses and can address more
specific processes like semi-
solid, core blowing,
centrifugal, lost foam and
continuous casting.
 LAMMPS
(Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator)

 LAMMPS uses spatial-

decomposition techniques to
partition the simulation domain
into small 3d sub-domains, one of
which is assigned to each processor.
Processors communicate and
store ghost atom information for
atoms that border their subdomain.
LAMMPS is most efficient (in a
parallel computing sense) for
systems whose particles fill a 3D
rectangular box with approximately
uniform density.
Thank you and God Bless!