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Part 3: Materials
Lecture 3
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Body Centered Cubic Structure (BCC)
• Atoms touch each other along cube diagonals.
--Note: All atoms are identical; the center atom is shaded
differently only for ease of viewing.
A
• FCC Unit Cell B
C
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Fig_3-16
Fig_3-18
Hexagonal Close-Packed Structure (HCP)
• ABAB... Stacking Sequence
• 3D Projection • 2D Projection
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Direction indices for identifying crystal directions, showing how the [1 6 6] direction
is defined. The lower part of the figure shows the family of 〈111〉 directions.
Theoretical Density, r
Mass of Atoms in Unit Cell
Density = r =
Total Volume of Unit Cell
nA
r =
VC NA
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