What you'll learn:
- Basics of Material properties in mechanical design
- What is Ductility, hardness, toughness, strength , fatigue etc
- What is the generic material selection process
- Importance of Material selection
- Material indices to guide material selection
- How to derive material index for simple mechanical loading applications
Materials are an integral part of mechanical design and engineering.
Understanding of properties , how they matter for product performance are a key knowledge set for any engineer designing products big or small .
This course attempts to provide insights into the following topics
Role of material selection in Design process
The importance of materials
Types of materials
The Mechanical properties
Modulus
Ductility and brittleness
Strength
Hardness
Resilience and Toughness
Fracture toughness
Fatigue strength
Wear
Creep
Internal damping - loss coefficient
Thermal properties - Conductivity, Thermal expansion and heat capacity
Introduction to peculiar nature of various base materials and composites
Material charts
Material selection process
Material indices
Derivation of indices for various loading application
Applying indices on the Ashby charts for material selection
The course is intended to be a starting point for deep study into material selection .
Materials is of course a very vast subject . This course can be a good reference to get a taste for the field of material selection.
If you are a design engineer and looking to refresh and maybe pickup on new concepts regarding materials this course will be for you .
If you are a student who is looking to start their learning journey in area of materials of mechanical design for product development then this should be a good starting point.
Course is designed to be precise and to the point and focuses on concepts and not only the facts .
