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Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials

By Prof. Saswata Bhattacharya   |   IIT Hyderabad
Learners enrolled: 343   |  Exam registration: 31
ABOUT THE COURSE:
This course introduces the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics and kinetics to students of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. Major topics covered by this course are laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic potentials, principles of phase equilibria, theory of solutions, thermodynamics of chemical reactions, thermodynamics of surfaces, rates of reactions, principles of irreversible thermodynamics, phenomenology of diffusion and atomic mechanisms of diffusion in solids. At the end of this course, a student learns how to apply thermodynamic principles to assess the feasibility of processes, calculate phase equilibrium conditions in multicomponent, multiphase materials, construct phase diagrams, calculate thermodynamic driving force for phase change, understand the principles of kinetics of irreversible processes such as rates of reactions and diffusion processes in materials. The course also includes a virtual laboratory where the student learns to compute phase equilibria and phase diagrams of unary, binary, and ternary systems and perform simulations of diffusion using the free ThermoCalc education package and open source Pycalphad and FiPy.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Undergraduate Students and First Year PG students

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Tata Steel, JSW, General Electric, Eaton, Kennametal India, TCS-Engineering, Hindalco, MIDHANI In general, all Materials and Manufacturing Industries that engage in materials processing and design
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Core
Language for course content : English
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Metallurgy and Material science & Mining Engineering
  • Minor in Metallurgy
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date : 22 Jul 2024
End Date : 11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends : 05 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends : 16 Aug 2024
Exam Date : 03 Nov 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Module 1 (4 weeks):

Thermodynamic systems and variables, state of a system. Laws of thermodynamics – first law and thermodynamic processes – definitions of internal energy, enthalpy, specific heat, applications in thermochemistry; second law – reversible and irreversible processes – concept of entropy and its statistical interpretation; third law – absolute scale of temperature and absolute entropy. Reservoirs and thermodynamic potentials - Helmholtz free energy, Gibbs free energy, chemical potential. Thermodynamic relations. Maxwell’s relations and their applications – relations between directly measurable and not directly measurable thermodynamic quantities

Module 2 (4 weeks):

Thermodynamic equilibrium and stability, Gibbs phase rule, Clausius-Clapeyron equation; Thermodynamics of solutions: partial molar quantities, Gibbs-Duhem relation, boiling and freezing points, ideal and non-ideal solutions, activity, quasichemical solution models, applications in clustering and ordering transformations

Module 3 (4 weeks):

Gibbs free energy-composition diagrams in binary systems; Construction of binary phase diagrams - cooling curves, x-ray diffraction method, electrical resistivity method, numerical modeling; Thermodynamics of reactions – Ellingham diagram for the formation of metal oxides; Thermodynamics of surfaces – adsorption of gases, Langmuir isotherm, Gibbs interfacial thermodynamics. Introduction to thermodynamics of irreversible processes – relation between flux and thermodynamic driving force

Books and references

Textbooks:
1. Richard A. Swalin - Thermodynamics of Solids 2nd ed. Wiley VCH, 1973
2. Paul Shewmon - Diffusion in Solids 2nd ed. Springer 2016
Additional Reading:
1. Robert DeHoff - Thermodynamics in Materials Science 2nd ed. CRC Press
2. Robert W. Balluffi, Samuel M. Allen, W. Craig Carter - Kinetics of Materials 1st ed. Wiley-Interscience
3. David A. Porter, Kenneth E. Easterling - Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys 2nd ed., Nelson Thornes Ltd.
4. Mats Hillert and Malin Selleby, Computerized Thermodynamics for Materials Scientists and Engineers, www.thermocalc.com, 2018

Instructor bio

Prof. Saswata Bhattacharya

IIT Hyderabad
Prof. Saswata Bhattacharya is an Professor in Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. His expertise and research interests are in the areas of phase transformations of materials, phase-field modelling of microstructures, discrete dislocation dynamics and integrated computational materials engineering (ICME). He was a guest editor for the special issue on “Phase-field Modeling” in the Journal of Indian Institute of Science. Over the past several years, he has developed and taught several undergraduate and graduate courses on thermodynamics and kinetics of materials, transport phenomena, computational materials science, and materials informatics He also taught certificate course on Micromechanics and Modeling of Microstructures in Tata Steel, NRC-M courses on Phase-field modeling and ICME in IISc Bangalore, and interdisciplinary courses on Computational Modeling. He has done several industry-sponsored and Government-funded projects and authored more than thirty papers on computational modeling of microstructures and microstructure-property relations. Currently he is engaged in developing an open-source phase-field simulation software funded by National Supercomputing Mission, Government of India.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 
03 November 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Hyderabad .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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