Handbook

This course will cover two key areas of focus across a series of lectures.
The first section will provide students with advanced knowledge in metal working (including hot working, Zener-Hollomon parameter, dynamic recovery and recrystallization and cold working, formability, residual stresses), and recrystallisation phenomena, with emphasis on the effect of processing conditions on microstructure (and hence properties). Common classes of copper alloys will be taught illustrating some of the principles involved.
The second section will focus on several advanced topics including: Specialty alloys such as; shape memory alloys, TWIP and TRIP steels, ultra-lightweight alloys, amorphous alloys, high entropy alloys and the associated processing technologies or fundamental mechanisms surrounding them. It will also cover severe plastic deformation techniques and superplastic forming processes of metals.