15YN06 EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN METALLURGY

2203

LIGHT MICROSCOPY: Macro examination, principle and working of optical microscope, specimen preparation, optical
principles - numerical aperture, resolving power, depth of focus, depth of field, aberrations in optical microscopes and their
remedial measures, different microscopic techniques-dark field microscopy, phase-contrast microscopy, polarized light
microscopy, interference microscopy, high temperature microscopy; quantitative metallography. (10+3)

X-RAY DIFFRACTION: X-Ray Radiation –Properties, Generation of X-rays,X-ray absorption, Diffraction-Bragg's law,
Reciprocal Lattice, Laue‟s, rotating crystal and powder diffraction methods, X-ray diffractometer - principle, equipment and
applications, X-ray filters and counters, Applications- Determination of crystal structure, lattice parameter, Crystallite Size
calculation, Residual stress measurements. (8+3)

TECHNIQUES OF ELECTRON MICROSCOPY: Electron specimen interactions, electron optical instruments, transmission
electron microscopy - specimen preparation, imaging modes, applications, selected area diffraction, scanning electron
microscopy - operating modes and applications, electron probe microanalyser-qualitative and quantitative analysis, vacuum
systems for electron microscopy. (10+3)

ADVANCED MICROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES: Scanning probe microscopy-Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Atomic force
microscopy- principle, instrumentation and applications, field ion microscopy - principle, instrumentation and applications.
(6+1)

OPTICAL AND X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY: Optical emission spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy - principle,
equipment and applications. (4+1)

SURFACE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES: Auger Electron Spectroscopy–principle, instrumentation and applications
in metallurgy; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy - principle, instrumentation and applications; secondary ion mass
spectroscopy - principle, instrumentation and applications. (5+2)
THERMAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES: Differential thermal analysis, Differential scanning calorimetry and Thermo-
Gravimetric analysis - principles, instrumentation, results interpretation. (2+1)

DILATOMETRY, RESISTIVITY AND MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS (2+1)

Total L: 45+T: 15 = 60

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