Course Overview
The course will provide an overview of the properties of engineering materials used on ships. Topics covered will include the following: extraction of major metals from their ores, manufacturing of iron and steel, a review of alloy structures, identifying and selecting metals for shipboard applications, modifying the properties of ferrous metals and aluminum alloys by heat treatment, surface hardening of steels, mechanical properties and testing of metals including non-destructive tests, and the properties and applications of plastics and ceramics in marine engineering.
Prerequisite(s)
- Admission to the Program.
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- List the steps in manufacturing, engineering properties, and applications of wrought iron and pig iron.
- Sketch and describe the Bessemer, Basic Open Hearth, Basic Oxygen Furnace, and electric steel-making processes.
- Describe the production and uses of killed, rimmed, semi-killed, and vacuum de-gassed steels.
- Describe, with the aid of the iron carbon equilibrium diagram, the phases of plain carbon steels.
- Describe the engineering properties and marine applications of plain carbon steels.
- Describe the processes of forging, rolling, and casting, and their effect on material properties.
- Explain how crystalline structure, temperature, and grain size influence the strength and formability of a metal.
- Explain how vacancies, impurities, and dislocations cause slip and plastic deformation in metals, and state the engineering applications of slip and deformation.
- Describe how annealing, hardening, and tempering is carried out on steels.
- Explain how a steel’s surface is hardened by carburizing, nitriding, flame, and induction.
- Describe how macroscopic examinations of metals are carried out, and state the purposes of such examinations.
- Describe how tensile, hardness, bend, Charpy impact, fatigue, and creep tests are carried out, and state reasons for these tests.
- Describe how non-destructive tests are carried out using X-ray, ultrasound, crack detection, and magnaflux, and state reasons for these tests.
- Describe the properties and uses of the copper-based alloys used in marine systems.
- Describe the properties and uses of aluminum alloys used in ship construction.
- Describe the properties and uses of the major plastics, ceramics, and composites used in the marine industry.
Effective as of Fall 2013
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