Topic outline
Introduction
- Teaching methods & final examination
- Programme of the course
- References
- Thesis & Stages
- Scenario
- Objectives
- Contacts
Material, Design and Properties
- The optimization cycle (The “Bermuda Triangle”)
- Material-Process-Design
- Case history
- The obsolescence of Materials and Technology
- The optimization cycle (The “Bermuda Triangle”)
Criteria for material and process selection
- The world of materials and processes
- Materials, Processes and their attributes
- The structure of database
- The design process for material selection
- Material Indices
- The design process for process selection
- The world of materials and processes
Steel production and transformation
- Introduction
- Direct reduction route production
- Primary steel route production
- Secondary steel route production
- Refining processes
- Casting operations
- Introduction
Innovative foundry processes
- Introduction
- Conventional foundry processes
- Microstructure and defects
- Innovative foundry processes
- Concluding remarks
- Introduction