Describe steelmaking and processing of steel components. Differentiate between plain carbon steel, alloy steel, cast iron, and stainless steel.
Reconstruct the iron-carbon phase diagram indicating all key phases, reactions, and microstructures.
Describe what pearlite and marteniste are, their mechanical property differences, their microstructural differences, and how they are produced.
Define isothermal and continuous cooling transformations.
Describe annealing, normalizing, quenching, tempering, martempering, and austempering processes.
Describe the classification of plain carbon and alloy steels and explain the effect of various alloying elements on properties of steel.
Describe the classification, heat-treatability, microstructure, and general properties of aluminum alloys, copper alloys, stainless steels, and cast irons.
Explain the importance and applications of intermetallics, shape memory, and amorphous alloys.
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of alloys that are used in biomedical applications.
