NPTEL : Advanced Metallurgical Thermodynamics (Metallurgy and Material Science)

Co-ordinators : Prof. B.S. Murty


Lecture 1 - Basic definitions

Lecture 2 - Free energy, Stability, equilibrium in a unary system

Lecture 3 - Effect of Pressure on equilibrium transformations: Clausius Clapeyron equation, phase diagram for unary system

Lecture 4 - Free energy of solutions, free energy-composition diagrams

Lecture 5 - Solution models, chemical potential

Lecture 6 - Phase rule, free energy-composition diagrams and phase diagrams

Lecture 7 - Evolution of phase diagrams

Lecture 8 - Evolution of phase diagrams, miscibility gap

Lecture 9 - To concept, partition less solidification

Lecture 10 - To concept, partition less solidification (Continued...)

Lecture 11 - Eutectic solidification, glass formation

Lecture 12 - Kauzmann paradox, order of a transformation, glass forming ability

Lecture 13 - Eutectic solidification, coupled growth, heterogeneous nucleation

Lecture 14 - Peritectic solidification, metastable phase diagrams

Lecture 15 - Errors in drawing phase diagrams, Fe-C vs. Fe-Fe3C phase diagram

Lecture 16 - Free energy of undercooled liquid, shape of nucleus

Lecture 17 - Solid state phase transformations - Precipitation

Lecture 18 - Precipitation

Lecture 19 - Precipitation - quasicrystals

Lecture 20 - Precipitate coarsening, stability of a phase, spinodal decomposition

Lecture 21 - Spinodal decomposition

Lecture 22 - Eutectioid reaction

Lecture 23 - Eutectioid reaction (Continued...)

Lecture 24 - Bainitic transformation

Lecture 25 - Kinetics of eutectoid transformations

Lecture 26 - Martensitic Transformation

Lecture 27 - Martensitic transformation, order-disorder transformation

Lecture 28 - Miscibility gap in phase diagrams

Lecture 29 - Phase diagram calculations

Lecture 30 - Thermodynamics of heterogeneous systems

Lecture 31 - Thermodynamics of heterogeneous systems (Continued...)