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MTE 481
Analytical Methods for Materials (W)
Fall 2011

MTE Department | College of Engineering | The University of Alabama | MINT Center

Required Text(s)

Y. Leng, Materials Characterization: Introduction to Microscopic and Spectroscopic Methods, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

Y. Waseda, E. Matsubara, and K. Shinoda, X-ray Diffraction Crystallography, Springer, New York, 2011.

D.C. Van Aken and W.F. Hosford, Reporting Results, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2008.

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HANDOUTS

Syllabus (tentative)

Ethics in Engineering

LESSONS/LECTURES

0. GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION (Added 8/24/2011)

1. INTRODUCTION TO MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION (8/24/2011)

 

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY

2. PRINCIPLES OF OPTICAL MICROSCOPY (8/29/2011)

3. COMPONENTS IN AN OPTICAL MICROSCOPE (8/29/2011)

4. METALLOGRAPHY (Updated 8/31/2011)

5. OPTICAL MICROSCOPE AND IMAGING MODES (8/29/2011)

 

X-RAY DIFFRACTION AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

6. PROPERTIES OF X-RAYS (Updated 8/31/2011)

7. CRYSTAL GEOMETRY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, PART 1 (8/29/2011)

8. LATTICE PLANES AND DIRECTIONS (8/31/2011)

9. STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS (updated 10/10/2011)

10. CRYSTAL GEOMETRY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, PART 1 (updated 10/10/2011)

11. CRYSTAL GEOMETRY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, PART 2 (updated 10/17/2011)

12. SPACE GROUPS AND SPACE GROUP NOTATION, PART 3 (modified 10/21/2011)

13. SPACE GROUPS AND SPACE GROUP NOTATION, PART 4 (updated 10/21/2011)

14. INTERNATIONAL TABLES FOR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND REPRESENTATION OF SPACE GROUPS (added 10/21/2011)

15. RECIPROCAL LATTICES AND DIFFRACTION (updated 10/21/2011)

16. X-RAY SCATTERING AND DIFFRACTION (added 11/14/2011)

17. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN X-RAYS AND MATTER (added 11/14/2011)

18. THE STRUCTURE FACTOR (added 11/14/2011)

19. INTENSITY OF THE DIFFRACTED X-RAY BEAM (added 11/14/2011)

20. COMPONENTS IN AN X-RAY DIFFRACTOMETER (added 11/14/2011)

 

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY

21. ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY (added 11/27/2011)

 

22. TIPS ON TECHNICAL WRITING (added 11/27/2011)

 

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LABORATORY/EXPERIMENTAL MODULES

0. METALLOGRAPHY OF MATERIALS (8/24/11)

NOTE: For labs 1 and 2 all lab groups will collect XRD patterns for the following cubic and non-cubic crystals:

Cubic: Cr, Al, MgO, TiN, Ni, Si, Cu, MgAl2O4

Non-cubic: Mg, Zn, AlN, Ti, B (rhombohedral)

1. X-RAY DATA COLLECTION AND INDEXING; Cubic Material (10/21/2011)

Lab 1 PowerPoint viewgraphs (11/2/2011)

2. X-RAY DATA COLLECTION AND INDEXING; Non-cubic Material (10/21/2011)

Lab 2 PowerPoint viewgraphs (11/2/2011)

3. PRECISE LATTICE PARAMETER DETERMINATION

4. PHASE DIAGRAM DETERMINATION (Application of Lab #3)

5. CRYSTALLITE SIZE AND LATTICE STRAIN

6. RESIDUAL STRESS DETERMINATION

7. QUANTITATIVE PHASE IDENTIFICATION IN POWDER MIXTURES

8. IDENTIFICATION OF UNKNOWN CRYSTALS VIA X-RAY DIFFRACTION

9. USE OF SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY

10. FINAL PROJECT

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HOMEWORK

3. Solution to Problem #3 - [111] stereographic projection (10/14/11)

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MANUALS AND LAB AIDS

Template for Lab Reports

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WEB RESOURCES

Annotated Physics Encyclopedia (Crystallography & Structure of Solids)

Interdisciplinary Centre for Electron Microscopy (CIME)

International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD)

JEOL - Scanning Electron Microscopy Guide pdf (local pdf)

FEI - Introduction to Electron Microscopy pdf

LECO - Metallography Principles and Procedures pdf

Introduction to XRD Course at UNM

USGS Lab Manual for Powder X-ray Diffraction

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