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Metodologie Metallografiche
Metallographic Methods
Marcello Cabibbo

Seat Ingegneria
A.A. 2015/2016
Credits 6
Hours 48
Period II
Language ENG

Prerequisites
Metallurgy

Learning outcomes
The course aims to introduce the students to the measurement and testing methodologies used for the metallographic and metallurgical characterization of metal materials.

Program
Specimen preparation for optical and electron microscopy. Optical microscopy. Atomic force microscopy (AFM). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM and FEGSEM). Transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Hardness and micro-hardness tests. Nanoindentation. Thermal treatments. Elements of Stereology.

Development of the examination
LEARNING EVALUATION METHODS
Student report from laboratory experimentations, writtena and oral exams.

LEARNING EVALUATION CRITERIA
Laboratory student report concerning the given and guided tasks during the laboratory sessions. Written queries concerning the lecture arguments and a stereology exercise. Oral queries consisting of the complementary arguments.

LEARNING MEASUREMENT CRITERIA
base 30 points.

FINAL MARK ALLOCATION CRITERIA
The lab report will be evaluated on a The written laboratory report will be evaluated up to a maximum of 10 points, the written exam will be evaluated up to a maximum of 8 points, with a oral access cutoff of 18 points summing the report and the written exam points. The oral part ofthe exam will be organized on a 2 query basis. Each query will be evaluated from 0 to 6 points.

Recommended reading
G. Zlateva, Z. Martinova, Microstructure of Metals and Alloys, CRC Press. J.L Goldstein, D.E. Newbury, J.W. Colby, H. Yakowitz, E. lifshin, J.R. Coleman, Practical scanning electron microscopy, Plenum Press. P.J. Goodhew, F.J. Humphreys, Electron microsco

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