Applications are made to the energy and configuration of defects in materials, solute segregation, phase transformations, stresses in multicomponent systems, and microstructural development during processing, for example. Metal deformation is understood based on elasticity theory and dislocation concepts.
Fracture is understood based on continuum fracture mechanics and microstructural damage mechanisms.
Cross-listed as AM 532. An introductory description of the structure of crystals and the analysis of matter by diffraction methods. Classical crystallography, point and space group symmetry, real and reciprocal space constructions of the conditions for diffraction, intensity of reflection. Instrumentation and laboratory techniques for the observation of X-ray diffraction by crystals, imperfect crystals and amorphous materials. Permission of instructor Course covers the physical principles of scanning electron microscopy and electron probe microanalysis.