metallurgical engineering master modulhandbuch 4 2011

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Compendium of Modules

Master programme

Metallurgical Engineering

RWTH Aachen University(April 2011)


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Deepening of knowledge in engineering science (basic

subjects):

Course Master Metallurgical Engineering

Name of Module Fabrication Technology of Metals

Type of Module Basic course

Courses a) Lecture Introduction to Metal Formingb) Lecture Foundry Technologyc) Exercise Introduction to Metal Formingd) Exercise Foundry Technology

Semester Summer semester

2

nd

semester of master courseDates of Courses a) Tuesday 11:45h - 13:15h

b) Wednesday 11:45h - 13:15hc) Tuesday 14:00h 15:30hd) TBA

Please check the dates in Campus Office.

Responsibility Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Hirt

Lecturer Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Hirt

Prof. Dr.-Ing. A. Bhrig-PolaczekLanguage English

Curriculum M.Sc. Metallurgical Engineering

Hours per week Lecture: 4Exercises: 2

Work load Presence-study = 68 hHome-study = 172 h

Credit points8

Requirements

Basis for:

Learning targets /competences to bereached

a); c):Knowledge:The students know the basic technologies of metalforming as well as selected solution methods.

Comprehension:The students understand the coherences between


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essential process and material parameters.

Application:The basic equations of the elemental theory for analysisand interpretation of basic processes of metal forming

can be applied.b); d):Knowledge:The students possess an overview and know the basicsof foundry technology.

Comprehension:The students understand the connection betweenprocess technology, casting materials and theirsimulation.

Application:The students are enabled to meet technology baseddecisions on complex foundry processes and materials.

Contents a); c)

Introduction to basics: plasticity, plastomechanics,boundary conditions and heat transport, solutionmethods

Technology and solving methods of bulk-forming:forging, extrusion, bar extrusion, drawing, rolling

Technology and solving methods of sheet forming:forming of sheet metal, tribology, deep-drawing,

stretch-forming, flow formingb); d)

Physical and technological basics: metallic melts,undercooling, nucleation, casting-, feeding- andgating techniques

Moulding and casting technology: high-pressure-die-casting, die-casting sand-casting as well as mouldingmaterials and applicable rapid-prototyping techniques

Casting materials (cast iron, aluminium- and

magnesium alloys): metallurgy, casting properties,micro-structure and its properties as well as therelationship between them

Simulation of foundry processes: heat-balance incasting and mould, flow and convection

Aspects of economic and ecological challenges infoundry technology

Examination Written exam:180 min

Media Lecture: Power Point with short videosExercises: Overhead-projector, board, power-point

Literature T. Altan: Metal forming, American Society for MetalsLange: Handbook of Metal Forming, Volume 1


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Scriptum and hand-outsD. M. Stefanescu: Science and Engineering of CastingSolidification, Kluwer Academic, New York, 2002.


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Name of Module Fabrication Technology of Mineral Materials

Type of Module Basic subject

Courses a) L/E Glass

b) L/E Ceramics

c) L/E Mineral Raw Materials


2ndsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) Mon. 10:00 11:30h

b) Fri. 11:45 13:15h

c) TBA


Responsibility Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Reinhard Conradt

Lecturer Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. R. Conradt

Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. R. Telle

Dr.rer.nat. A. Kaiser

Language English


Hours per week Lecture: 3

Exercises: 3

Work load Presence-study = 68 h

Home-study =172 h

Credit points 8

Requirements

Basis for:

Learning targets /

competences to be

reached

a), The students know the entire chain of industrial glass

production from the acquisition of energy carriers and

raw materials via the calculation and mixing of the batch,

the melting process and the most common forming

processes to quality control. They are able to set up

mass, energy, and CO2emission balances.

b), The students know how to handle and to characteriseceramic raw materials and green bodies. They


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understand the principles and physico-chemical

background of the manufacturing processes and are

aware of the micro-structural peculiarities introduced by

the respective treatment. In particular they are able to

recognise microstructural defects and their origins.c), The students possess fundamental knowledge about

the occurrence and properties of industrial raw materials

in respect to their genesis in earth crust, mineral phases,

impurities, and intergrowths. They know about the

temperature and pressure-dependent stability of minerals

and the relative enrichment of particular elements in the

crystal lattices.

Contents a), Flow chart of the melting process; design of glass

melting furnaces and their components; the furnace

treated as a thermal reactor and as a chemical reactor;

combustion calculation; quality, availability, and stock

keeping of raw materials; batch calculations; redox

control; forming principles for a visco-elastic medium;

production of tubes, fibres, containers, sheets; quality

control cycles.

b), Production and properties of selected oxides,

carbides, and nitrides. Powder production and

characterisation; milling and mixing procedures,

screening, technology of granulation; rheology of slurries,viscosity, zeta-potential; technology of slip casting, tape

casting, extrusion, injection moulding, dry pressing, and

cold isostatic pressing.

c), Evolution of the earth crust; availability of elements;

element enrichment by geochemical processes; igneous

rock forming processes; plutonic, volcanic, metamorphic,

and sedimentological generation of mineral species;

gravitational differentiation; crystallisation of magmatites;

occurrence of primary and secondary industrial minerals

and their properties, in particular quartz, feldspars, and

related compounds; role of weathering and

transportation; formation of carbonates, clays, bauxites.

Examination Written exam 180 min; 60 min for each sub-topic

Media Lectures: power-point presentation and hand-outs;

Exercise: blackboard, overhead

Literature a) Trier: Glass melting furnaces. Springer Verlag 1984.

Own scriptum on fabrication technology. Own

scriptum on glass technology.b) D. W. Richerson, Modern Ceramic Engineering,

Marcel Dekker, New York 1992; Munz, Fett,


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Ceramics Mechanical Properties, Failure

Behaviour, Materials Selection, Springer Verlag,

1999; Materials Science and Technology Vol.17B:

Processing of Ceramics Part II, Verlag Chemie,

Weinheim 1996c) Baumgart, Dunham, Process Mineralogy of Ceramic

Materials; Enke-Verlag 1984


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Name of Module Metallic Materials


Courses a) L/E Metallic Materials (Prof. Bleck)b) Lecture and exercise "Microstructures, Microscopy &

Modelling" (Dr. Zaefferer)

Semester Summer semester2ndsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) L/E: Tue. 10:00h 11:30h / Wed. 8:15h 9:45hb) on appointment

Please check the dates in Campus Office.Responsibility

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. Bleck

Lecturer Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. BleckDr. S. ZaeffererDr. F. RotersDr. U. Prahl

Language English




Credit points8

Requirements

Basis for:


Students are proficient in the metalphysical phenomenaand their different possibilities for systematic influence onmetals properties. Further on, students manage thetransfer of the learned theories on practical applicationsof metallic materials. For selected examples, studentsare capable of analysing the development ofmicrostructure through process chain.


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Contents Physical properties of metallic materials; substitutionaland interstitial solid solution; selected binary and ternarysystems; steel groups: unalloyed mild steels, structuralsteels, soft magnetic steels, stainless steels, phasetransformation, precipitation and aging, pearlite, bainite,

martensite; heat treatment of steels; steel processing:continuous casting, hot rolling, cold rolling, annealing,development of microstructure, modern methods ofelectron microscopy, materials and microstructuresimulation, examples of new materials andmicrostructures.

Examination Written exam 180 min

Media Lecture: Power-Point, transparencies, short videos,models und exhibitsExercises: Power-Point, transparencies, short videos,

models und exhibitsLiterature - W. Bleck: Material Science of Steel, Verlag Mainz, 2007

- W. Bleck: Material Characterisation, Verlag Mainz,2009- handoutsAdditional literature references are given in lectures.


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Name of Module Mineral Materials


Courses a) L/E Glass

b) L/E Ceramics

c) L/E Crystallography of Mineral Materials

Semester Winter semester

1stsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) Mon. 08.15h 09.45h

b) Tue. 14.00h 15.30h

c) Wed. 10.00h 11.30h


Responsibility Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. R. Conradt

Lecturer Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. R. Conradt

Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. R. Telle

Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat. G. Roth

Language English



Exercises: 2


Home-study = 172 h

Credit points 8

Requirements

Basis for:

Learning targets /

competences to be

reached

a) Lecture: The students conceive glass as a special

aggregate state of matter and know how to describe it

in terms of thermodynamic, structural, and kinetic

categories. They understand the meaning of chemical

bonds in oxide systems, and are able to derive the

short-range order entities of the glass structures.

They gain an overview over spectral, optical, andthermo-mechanical properties of industrial glasses.


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b) Lecture: The students understand the chemical and

physico-chemical properties of ceramic materials;

they know about the most important structure-

property relations such as brittle behaviour, thermal

properties; ion and super conductivity, piezo effect,medical behaviour; they know what kind of material is

used for what purposes and recognise advantages

and disadvantages.

c) Lecture: The students acquire a basic understanding

of the building principles of crystal structures in terms

of chemical bonding and structural topology. This

includes an overview over the most important

structure types and of structure-property relations in

inorganic (non-metallic) engineering materials.

d) Exercise: The students know to derive the viscosity-temperature function from the chemical composition

of a glass, to determine working and cooling range.

They are able to derive the crystallization curve for a

given glass. They know how to influence the colour of

a glass. They know how to set up a cooling

programme for an industrial product.

e) Exercise: The students know about fundamentals of

sintering behaviour and are able to give qualitative

estimates on the microstructural evolution duringdensification; they are able to estimate the stress-

failure behaviour of ceramics by means of Griffith-

Equation.

f) Exercise: The students will learn hands-on how to

understand, draw and interpret crystal structures both

qualitatively (identify structure type, identify

coordination, describe polyhedral linkage etc.) and

quantitatively (derive bond-lengths and -angles,

discuss bond-strength and derive structure related

properties).

Contents a) Glass: Thermodynamic functions of a glass, the glass

transition, random network versus cluster hypothesis

of the glass structure, viscosity (VFT, Angell, and

Gibb-Adam plot), crystallization and nucleation. Ionic

versus covalent bonds, hybrid bonds, anion-cation

packing, Dietzel field strength, electronegativity,

short-range order building blocks of oxide glasses;

optical and spectral properties; thermal expansion,

thermal stresses, strength and fracture mechanics ofa material having no internal microstructure


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b) Ceramics: Definitions of ceramics, chemical

composition and interatomic bonding; sintering

phenomena; introduction to brittle fracture; ceramics

in application: high-temperature properties:

refractories, insulating materials, ceramics inautomotives and energy technology; electrical and

electronic properties, ion conductivity, super

conductors, NTC, PTC, medical properties.

c) Crystallography of Mineral Materials: Basic syste-

matic crystal chemistry: Chemical and topological

classification; fundamental structure types. Structure

and chemical bonding. Principles of structure-pro-

perty relations in inorganic solids (mechanical,

electrical, magnetic, thermal properties etc.). Struc-

tural defects and structural phase transitions and theirinfluence on macroscopic properties. Crystal chem-

ical tailoring of materials properties (doping, substi-

tution etc.); Selected examples of technically import-

ant materials (e.g. perovskites, spinells, semicon-

ductors, oxide- and non-oxide ceramics, ultra-hard

materials, refractories etc.)

d) Glass: Calculation of viscosity by Lakatos factors,

derivation of VFT parameters from experiments, set-

up of Angell and Gibbs-Adam plot; determination ofthe crystallization time law from crystallite geometry;

design of a full-fledged industrial cooling programme

e) Ceramics: Microstructural evolution during sintering;

thermal expansion; thermal shock; lambda probe,

SOFC, linings of gas turbines; corrosion in liquids and

gasses, active and passive oxidation; dental and

bone implants.

f) like c)

ExaminationWritten exam 180 min; 60 min for each sub-topic

Media Lectures: power-point presentation and hand-outs;

visualization software for crystal structures; hand-on

samples

Exercises: blackboard, overhead, calculator worksheets,

use (on own PC or CIP-pool) of freely available software

for constructing and drawing crystal structures; simple

structure optimization (molecular mechanics) software

Literature a) Own scriptum, Scholze: Glass Nature, Structure &

Properties, Springer Verlag, Berlin 1998. R. H.Doremus: Glass Science. John Wiley, New York


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1994.

b) D.W. Richerson, Modern Ceramic Engineering,

Marcel Dekker, New York 1992; Munz, Fett,

Ceramics Mechanical Properties, Failure

Behaviour, Materials Selection, Springer Verlag,1999; W.D. Kingery, H.K. Bowen, D.R. Uhlmann,

Introduction to Ceramics John Wiley & Sons, New

York, Chichester, 3rdEd.1976; Yet-Ming Chiang,

Dunbar Bernie III, W.D. Kingery Physical Ceramics -

Principles for Ceramic Science and Engineering,

Wiley, MIT-Series in Materials Science and

Engineering 1977

c) A.F. Wells: Structural Inorganic Chemistry, scripts,

handouts


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Name of Module Physical Metallurgy


Courses a) L/E Physical Metallurgy

Semester Winter semester1stsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) Thu. 10:00 11:30h; 17:00 18:30h /Fri. 08:30 10:00h


Responsibility Prof. Dr. rer. nat. G. Gottstein

LecturerProf. Dr. rer. nat. G. Gottstein

LanguageEnglish



Exercises: 2Work load Presence-study = 68 h

Home-study = 172 h

Credit points 8

Requirements

Basis for:


The students will get familiar with the physical

fundaments of material science. The students will beenabled to study more specialized and fundamentaltopics of material science. They will learn to use theconcepts and methods in material science independentlyand will practice this in exercises accompanying thelecture. The students will deepen their understanding ofthe learnt contents during these exercises.

Contents Microstructure; atomic structure of solids; crystal defects;alloys; diffusion; mechanical properties; recovery,recrystallization, grain growth; solidification; solid statephase transformations; physical properties



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Media Lecture: presentation, black board and charc, computerpresentation, e-learning progam Metis (available viainternet)Exercises: presentation, black board and charc, self dependent solving of exercises with guidance through

the exercises.Literature Physical Foundations of Material Science,

G.Gottstein, Springer, 2004


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Study Program Master Metallurgical Engineering

Name of Module Process Metallurgy and Recycling


Courses a) Lecture Iron & Steel Metallurgyb) Lecture Nonferrous Metallurgyc) Tutorial Iron & Steel Metallurgyd) Tutorial Nonferrous Metallurgy


Dates of Courses a) Lecture: Mon 14:00h 15:30hb) Lecture: Tue. 10:30h 12:00h

c) Tutorial: Wed. 14:00h 15:30h, (bi-weekly)d) Tutorial: Wed. 14:00h 15:30h, (bi-weekly)


ResponsibilityUniv.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. K. B. Friedrich

Lecturer Dr. -Ing. R. FuchsUniv.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. D. G. Senk

LanguageEnglish




Credit points8

Requirements

Basis for: Study major(s) Process Technology of Metals,Physical Metallurgy, Materials Science of Steel andMineral Materials


Non-ferrous Metallurgy:The students should become capable to understand thematerial flow, the primary and secondary processingroute, the necessary aggregate with parameters ofprocess and the chemical reaction in the metallurgicalprocess of Copper, Aluminium, Zinc, Lead and Titanium,as well as the consideration of the problem of

environment and location and especially energyrequirements.Iron and steel:


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The students should know the most important propertiesof the production of Iron and steel. They should be ableto describe the plant specific relationship between theaggregates of process, the thermo-chemical properties ofeach middle-production and the kinetical process

procedure.Contents Non-ferrous metallurgy:

Basics of nonferrous metallurgyEconomical significance, primary and secondary rawmaterial, global material management.

Metallurgical processes of Copper:Pyrometallurgy: flash smelting; Converter metallurgyand direct production; Recycling and pyrometallurgicalRefining; Refining electrolysis and casting

Metallurgical processes of Aluminium:Bauxite to Al-Hydroxide; Al-Hydroxide to Metal;Recycling, melt treatment and casting.

Metallurgical processes of Zinc :Hydrometallurgy; Extraction electrolysis andhydrometallurgical Recycling; Pyrometallurgy;pyrometallurgical refining of lead and zinc

Metallurgical processes of Titanium:Sorel-process, Kroll-process, remelting

Iron and steel:

Introduction, historical review;

preparation of ore, production of coke;

thermodynamic, heterogeneous equilibrium,kinetics;

reduction technology, production of Iron;

production of steel;

secondary metallurgy;

casting and solidification

slag in the production of Iron and steel

recycling of the steel scrapes

environment protection and sustainability


Media Lecture: Power-Point; Videos, Models, Samples,Overhead,Exercises: Power-Point; Overhead, Samples, whiteboard;

Literature Schmitz, C.Handbook of Aluminium Recycling -Fundamentals, Mechanical Preparation,Metallurgical Processing, Plant DesignVulkan Verlag GmbH, 2006, EssenISBN 978 3 8027 2936 2

Habashi, F.Handbook of Extractive Metallurgy; Vol. 1, 2VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Weinheim 1997


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ISBN 3 527 28792 2

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry;Vol. A1, A7,A14, A15, A26, A27, A28VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Weinheim, 1985,Fifth Completely Revised Edition


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Name of Module Process Control Engineering


Courses a) L/E Process Measurementb) L/E Process Control Engineering

Semester a) Winter semester; 1stsemester of master course

b) Summer semester; 2ndsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) Tue. 08:15h 09:45h / Wed. 08:15h 09:45h(14d)b) Thu. 11:45h 13:15h / Thu. 14:00h 15:30h (14d)


Responsibility Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. U. Epple

LecturerUniv.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. U. Epple

LanguageEnglish




Home-study = 172 h

Credit points 8

Requirements

Basis for:


a), b)

ability to- apply measuring methods,- handle measured data ,- evaluate measuring informationbasic knowledge of- main physical measuring principles- requirements in industrial instrumentationc), d)ability to- analyse basic control problems- construct hierarchical control solutions

- handle industrial control languages- work with structural models of plants and processesbasic knowledge of


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- industrial control systems- requirements in industrial control

Contents a), b)measuring methods, processing and validation ofmeasuring data, distribution functions, error analysis,

physical measuring principles (temperature, flow, level,mechanical quantities..), industrial instrumentationc), d)- process control systems- communication systems- modelling technics- modelling plants, products, processes,- control engineering

discrete control, hybrid control,hierarchical control schema,control languages, (CFC, SFC, StateCharts..)formal methods


Media a), c) Prepared procedure documentation is fulfilledduring the lecture (TabletPC, Beamer)b), d) Black board, Beamer

Literature Script


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Name of Module Thermochemistry


Courses a) Lecture Thermochemistryb) Exercise Thermochemistry


Dates of Courses a) Tue. 17:30h 19:00h, Thu. 18:45h 20:15hb) Thu. 11:45h 13:15h


Responsibility Prof. J. Schneider, Ph.D.

LecturerProf. J. Schneider, Ph.D.

LanguageEnglish




Home-study = 172 h

Credit points 8

Requirements

Basis for:


The students get to know the basics of thermochemistry,

enabling them to evaluate the thermodynamic and kineticproperties of materials to select or develop suitablematerials for different processes and requirements.

Contents Chemical equilibrium

Phase diagrams

Properties of mixtures

Statistical thermodynamic

Rate of chemical reactions

Elastic properties

Properties of surfaces



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Media Lecture: Power-Point, eLearningExercises: Black board, eLearning, Power-Point

Literature P. Atkins & J. de Paula, Physical chemistry


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Name of Module Transport Phenomena


Courses a) Lecture Transport Phenomena 1

b) Exercise Transport Phenomena 1

c) L/E Transport Phenomena 2

Semester a), b) Winter semester; 1stsemester of master course

c) Summer semester; 2ndsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) Mon. 10:00h 11:30h

b) Wed. 11:45h 13:15h (14d)

c) Wed. 10:00h 11:30h / Thu. 08:15h 09:45h (14d)


Responsibility Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Pfeifer

Lecturer Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Pfeifer

Language English


Hours per week L/E 6


Home-study = 172 h

Credit points 8

Requirements

Basis for:

Learning targets /

competences to be

reached

a), b)

The students are trained to classify the kinds of energy-

and mass-transport in technical systems and to examine

this with numerical and analytical methods quantitatively.

They can derive the mathematical model equations from

the balance equations. In the lecture and the

supplementary exercises examples are preferred from

the field of the material engineering (Industrial FurnaceTechnology, Metallurgy, )


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c)

The students are trained to classify the types of flows

and to analyse the basic equations analytically. In the

lecture and the supplementary exercises examples are

preferred from the field of the material engineering(Industrial Furnace Technology, Metallurgy, )

Contents a), b)

Fundamentals of heat transfer and mass transport.

General equations of conduction, convection and

radiation, 1stlaw of thermodynamics, systems, system

boundaries, Fouriers law, Fouriers differential equation,

one dimensional steady state heat conduction, transient

heat conduction, numerical methods for heat conduction

problems, fundamentals of convective heat transfer,

similarity theory, Buckingham theorem, heat radiation,

radiation exchange, gas radiation

c)

Fundamentals of the fluid flow mechanics (momentum

transport), Fluid, Newtons shear stress approach,

fundamentals of the rheology, hydrostatics, aerostatics,

hydrodynamics, frictionless and friction-afflicted flows,

Bernoulli, momentum law, tube flow, dimensionless

numbers, Navier-Stokes-equations

Examination a), b) Written exam 90 min, (50 %)c) Written exam 90 min, (50 %)

Media Lecture: Power-Point, overhead, blackboard

Exercises: Power-Point, overhead, blackboard

Literature a), b)

Manuscript High Temperature Engineering 1 available

at IOB

Incropera, F.P.: Heat and Mass Transfer, Wiley, 2002

Baehr, H.D.; Stephan, K.: Heat and Mass Transfer,

Springerc)

Manuscript High Temperature Engineering 2 available

at IOB

Smits, J.: Fluid Mechanics, Wiley, 2000

Fox, R.W.: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Wiley, 2004


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Subject-specific emphasis

Area of specialism Materials Science of Mineral Materials:


Name of Module Glass

Type of Module Module N1 from study major Materials Science ofMineral Materials

Courses a) Lecture / Lab Physical Chemistry & Technologyb) Exercise Physical Chemistry & Technologyc) Exercise Reaction Kinetics

Semester a, b, c) Summer semester, 2n semester of master

course

(Lab) Winter (3rd) or Summer semester (2nd) on request

Dates of Courses a) Wed. 14:00 15:30hb) Mon. 11:00 12:30h, Wed. 15:45 16:30hc) Mon. 15:45 16:30hLab) Mon. Fri. (consent of faculty)


Responsibility Prof. Dr. rer. nat. R. Conradt

Lecturer

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. R. Conradt

LanguageEnglish

CurriculumM.Sc. Metallurgical Engineering

Hours per Week Lecture: 2Exercise: 2Labwork: 3

Work load Presence Study = 79 hHome Study = 131 h

Credit Points 7

Requirements Basic subject Mineral Materials

Basis for:

Learning Targets /

Competences to bereached

The students understand the physical, chemical, andthermodynamic concepts by which oxide glasses andglass melts can be described in a quantitative way. Theyare able to apply these concepts to fabrication processesas well as to the performance of the products. They areable to design glasses according to specific property


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profiles. They are acquainted with They know how totreat chemical reactions in multicomponent multiphaseparticulate systems. They understand the parameters bywhich the industrial melting process is controlled. Theyare able to suggest reasonable measures to for the

optimization of product quality, energy utilization, andproduction efficiency.

Contents Lecture and Exercise:- Quantitative treatment of multicomponent glasses

and glass melts; crystalline reference states; partiallycrystalline materials

- Viscosity, surface tension, atomic mobility as afunction of chemical composition; role of thesequantities in the melting process; bubble and particleswarms; multi-phase fluid systems

- Redox- and acid-base properties; chemistry of water

and sulfur in oxide melts; fining, refining, colorgeneration

- development of glasses according to given propertyprofiles

- Corrosion of glasses in aqueous media- Different types of heterogeneous reactions; time laws

as a function of local reaction type, particle shape,dimensionality, and size distribution

Labwork:Experiments are performed on- batch melting (batch-free time test),

- determination of glass color and spectral properties,

- redox control,- dilatometry (determination of glass transition and

thermal expansion coefficient of glass and melt),- chemical durability of glass,- corrosion of refractories by glass melts.


Media Lectures: power-point presentation and hand-outs; videosequences

Exercise: blackboard, PC with specific EXCELworksheets; commercial and self-made simulationprogrammes

Labwork: hand-outs, PC for compositional calculations

Literatur - Scholze: Glass Nature, Structure, and Properties- Vogel: Glass Chemistry, Springer- Zarzycky: Glasses and amorphous materials, VCH- Paul: Glass chemistry, Chapman & Hall


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Name of Module Ceramics


Courses a) L/E Sintering and Microstructureb) L/E Fracture Mech. and Reinforcementc) Labwork Ceramics Lab

Semester a) Winter semester, 3r semester of master course

b) Summer semester, 2ndsemester of master coursec) Winter (3rd) or Summer semester (2nd) on request

Dates of Courses a) Mon.10:00 11:30hb) Thu. 13:30 14:45hc) Mon. to Fri. (consent of faculty)


ResponsibilityProf. Dr. rer. nat. R. Telle

LecturerProf. Dr. rer. nat. R. Telle

Language English


Hours per Week Lecture : 2Exercise : 2Labwork: 3


Credit Points7

RequirementsBasic subject Mineral Materials

Basis for:

Learning Targets /


The students understand sintering phenomena and areable to correlate processing conditions, microstructures,and mechanical properties.

Contents Sintering phenomena, driving forces, diffusionmechanisms, time- and temperature dependence ofgrain growth and pore closure; grain boundary structure,liquid-solid interaction, hot pressing kinetics. Background

of brittleness, fracture energy, fracture resistance,hardness, testing methods, reinforcing mechanisms suchas crack deflection, microcracking and transformation


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toughening; correlation of microstructure and mechanicalproperties by means of Weibull statistics. Relationbetween processing methods and conditions, sinteringphenomena and mechanical properties.


Media Lectures: power-point presentation and hand-outs;Exercise: blackboard, overhead;Labwork: hand-outs, blackboard

Literature D.W. Richerson, Modern Ceramic Engineering,Marcel Dekker, New York 1992; German, Randall M.,Sintering Theory and Practice, John Wiley and SonsNew York, 1999. Munz, Fett, Ceramics MechanicalProperties, Failure Behaviour, Materials SelectionSpringer Verlag, 1999


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Name of Module Thermochemical & Dynamical Materials ModelingConcepts


Courses a) Lecture Thermochemistry of Mineral Materialsb) Exercise Thermochemistry of Mineral Materialsc) Lecture Materials Modelingd) Exercise Materials Modeling

Semester a, b) Summer semester, 2ndsemester of master course

c, d) Winter semester, 3rdsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) Wed. 11:45 12:30b) Wed. 12:30 13:15

c) Wed. 14:00 14:45d) Wed. 15:00 16:30


ResponsibilityProf. Dr. Ing. H. Emmerich

Lecturer (a-b) Prof. Dr. rer. nat. R. Conradt(c-d) Prof. Dr. Ing. H. Emmerich

LanguageEnglish


Hours per Week Lecture: 2Exercise: 3


Credit Points5

Requirements Basic Course Thermochemistry;Basic Course Mineral Materials

Basis for:

Learning Targets /


(a-b) The students understand the structure ofthermodynamic tables and databases, and thecorresponding reference states. They are able tocomplete data sets for mineral materials by applyingestimation methods, and to derive materials propertiesfrom databases. They can describe thermochemicalreactions involving mineral materials in a quantitativeway. They know different approaches to mixing in

multicomponent systems.(c-d) The students understand the concepts of scale


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bridging modeling and statistical modeling and they knowthe differences between statistical modeling andcontinuum modeling. They get the basic knowledge ofinterfaces, interface dynamics, solidification andnucleation processes.

Contents Thermochemistry of Mineral Materials:- Standard and formation properties; most important

thermochemical tables, their units and peculiarities;- Atomistic theories of heat capacity;- Calculation of partial molar quantities and chemical

potentials;- Relation between thermochemical and physical

properties;- Mixed phase thermodynamics for the solid and liquid

state with mixed covalent-ionic bonds- Introduction to irreversible thermodynamics.

Materials Modeling:- Introduction to the modeling with cellular automata

(CA)- Wolfram Automata- Modeling of transport phenomena with petri nets- CA and transport dynamics- Continuum modeling based on concepts of grain

growth and recrystallization- Continuum modeling based on concepts of

continuum mechanics- Continuum modeling based on concepts of fluid

dynamics

Examination Oral exam (30 min) on the contents of (a-b),

Written exam (90 min) on the contents of (c-d)

Media Lecture: blackboard; powerpoint presentations and hand-outs; data sheets from thermodynamic tables

Exercise: blackboard, PC, EXCEL worksheet;commercial and self-made simulation programmes andsimulation software

Literatur- Kubaschewski: Materials thermochemistry, Pergamon

Press- Philpotts: Principles of igneous and metamorphic

petrology, Prentice Hall- Gaskell: Introduction to metallurgical

thermodynamics, Taylor & Francis- Mchedlov-Petrossyan: Thermodynamics of Silicates.- Jost: Diffusion in solids, liquids, gases. Academic

Press.- special publications


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Name of Module Functional Design of Ceramics and Composites


Courses a) L/E Wear and High-Temperature Behaviour ofCeramics

Semester Summer semester, 2ndsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) L/E Mon. 10:00-11:30h


Responsibility

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. R. Telle

Lecturer Prof. Dr. rer. nat. R. Telle

Language English


Hours per Week Lecture: 1Exercise: 1

Work Load Presence Study = 23 hHome Study = 37 h

Credit Points2

RequirementsBasic subject Mineral Materials

Basis for:

Learning Targets /


The students understand the fundamental role ofmicrostructure on physical and chemical properties, in

particular the influence of grain size, grain shape, grainboundaries, second particulate or continuous phases.They know about the principle influence on mechanical,corrosive, electrical, thermal, piezo, and biologicalproperties and understand how to design and optimisemicrostructural parameters accordingly.

Contents Principles of mechanical reinforcement, corrosion underchemical and thermal influences; high-temp plasticdeformation and creep; transport properties dependingon microstructure, role of grain size and shape as well asgrain boundaries; functionally graded materials.



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Media Lectures: power-point presentation and hand-outs;Exercise: blackboard, overhead

Literature Czichos, H., Saito, T., Smith, L. [Eds.]: SpringerHandbook of Materials Measurement MethodsSpringer (2006); Munz, Fett, Ceramics MechanicalProperties, Failure Behaviour, Materials Selection,Springer Verlag, 1999;


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Area of specialism Materials Science of Steel:


Name of Module Materials Science of Steel

Type of Module Module N1 from study major Materials Science ofSteel

Courses a) Lecture Materials Science of Steelb) Lecture Steel Designc) Exercise Materials Science of Steeld) Practical Training Materials Science of Steel

Semester b) Summer semester, 2ndsemester of master course

a, c, d) Winter semester, 3rdsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) Tue. 15:45h 17:15h

b) Mon. 15:45h 17:15hc) Tue. 11:45h 12:30hd) Mon. 10:00h 11:30h, Practical Test (P2) is fixed

during semester


ResponsibilityUniv.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. Bleck

Lecturer Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. Bleckapl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Brillapl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas KernDr.-Ing. Klaus PetersDipl.-Ing. Lothar MudersDr. Axel KulgemeyerPriv.-Doz. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Peters

Dr. Andr Schneider

Dr.-Ing. Evelin RatteDr.-Ing Claudia Ernst

Language English


Hours per week Lecture: 4Exercises: 1Practical Training: 4

Work load Presence-study = 102hHome-study = 168h

Credit points9

Requirements


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Basis for:


a, c, d) Students are able to link metal-physicalphenomena with materials properties. They knowmethods and processes to analyse and influencecorresponding materials properties. For selectedprocesses, students are able to set up a process chain,including lifecycle assessment and cost effectiveanalysis.b) For selected steel groups, students are proficient indefining correlations between microstructure andproperties. They know the industrial implementation ofthese materials.

Contents a, c, d) Basic aspects of strength, toughness, fracture:conventional stress-strain-diagram, influence of

temperature and strain rate, yielding behaviour, thermalactivated flow stress, superplasticity, anisotropy;strengthening mechanisms, materials failure: fracturemechanics, cold forming properties, high temperaturebehaviour; economical importance of steel;environmental aspects of steel production and products.b) High strength steels for automotive application, highstrength structural steels, high temperature steels, multi-phase steels, special deep-drawing steels, rail steels

Examination a, c, d) Written exam 120 min + 15-30 min oral exam,successful passed practical training to the admission of

examination. Practical training is successful passed ifcertificate is given. (75 %)b) Written exam 60 min (25 %)

Media a, b) Lecture: Power-Point, transparencies, short videos,models und exhibitsc, d) Exercises: Power-Point, transparencies, shortvideos, models und exhibitsPractical training: Power-Point, transparencies, shortvideos, models und exhibits, laboratory equipment

Literature - W. Bleck: Material Science of Steel, Verlag Mainz, 2007

- W. Bleck: Material Characterisation, Verlag Mainz,2009- handoutsAdditional literature references are given in lectures


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Name of Module Introduction to Texture Analysis

Type of Module Module N2 from study major Physical Metallurgy an dMaterialsModule N2 from study major Materials Science ofSteel

Courses a) L/E Introduction to Texture Analysis

Semester Winter semester3ndsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) on appointment

Please check the dates in Campus Office.Responsibility

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. G. Gottstein

Lecturer Priv.-Doz. Dr.-Ing. Olaf Engler

Language English


hours per week Lecture: 2Exercises: 1


Credit points3

RequirementsBasic course: Physical Metallurgy recommended

Basis for:


The introduction to texture analysis enables students toread textures independently, further students are able tointerpret their meaning.The students deepen their knowledge by application oftexture analysis to macro texture simulations. Thestudents get confident with different modelling tools formacrotexture simulations of the deformed andrecrystallized state.


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Contents Introduction to the two principle concepts of textureanalysis (macrotexture - microtexture), fundamentals(definitions, orientation, misorientation, orientationspaces, diffraction for texture analysis), measurements ofmacrotexture (X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction, ODF-

analysis), measurements of microtexture (Kikuchi-patterns, SEM-based techniques, TEM-basedtechniques, evaluation and representation of micro-texture data, single grain orientation measurements,orientation relationships, misorientations), orientationmicroscopy, other techniques (OIM, orientation mapping,etching techniques, synchrotron and ultrasonic methods)


Media Lecture: presentation, black board and chalk, computerpresentation, e-learning progam Metis (available via

internet)Exercises: presentation, black board and chalk

Literature V. Randle, O. Engler, Introduction to Texture Analysis:Macrotexture, Microtexture and Orientation Mapping,Gordon and Breach Science Publishers (2000)


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Name of Module Materials Characterisation


Courses a) E / Practical Training Materials Characterisation


Dates of Courses a) Mon. 09:00 - 09:45h / Mon. 10:00 - 11:30h


Responsibility

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. Bleck

Lecturer Dr. S. MnstermannDr. U. Prahl

Language English


Hours per week Exercises: 1Practical Training: 2

Work load Presence-study = 34hHome-study = 56h

Credit points3

Requirements

Basis for:


Students know common methods to characterisematerials properties. They are able to perform andanalyse selected experiments.

Contents Tensile test, high speed tensile test, hardness test,Charpy test, fracture mechanic test and fatigue test,safety analysis; hot deformation test, Bulge test, sheetmetal forming test

Examination Certificate of participation if all experiments and apresentation of one practical test are passedsuccessfully.

Media Lecture: Power-Point, transparencies, short videos,

models und exhibitsExercises: Power-Point, transparencies, short videos,models und exhibits


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Practical training: Power-Point, transparencies, shortvideos, models und exhibits, laboratory equipment

Literature - W. Bleck: Material Science of Steel, Verlag Mainz, 2007- W. Bleck: Material Testing, Verlag Mainz, 2007- handouts

Additional literature references are given in lectures


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Name of Module Physical Metallurgy Lab


Courses a) E/Practical Training Physical Metallurgy Lab

Semester Winter semester3rdsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) Fri: 08:15h 14:15h


Responsibility

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. G. Gottstein

Lecturer Apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dmitri Molodov

Language English


hours per week Exercises: 1Practical Training: 5


Credit points6

Requirements

Basis for:


The students are enabled to carry out metallographicsample preparation independently. They can conduct

experiments on their own with respect to the topicspresented during the physical lab. They can interpret anddiscuss results obtained from own experiments.

Contents Solidification with respect to phase diagram Al-Zn ;microstructure and concentration distribution in a castbronze after solidification and homogenization; tensiletests of Cu single and polycrystals; hardening of Alalloys; recrystallization; texture measurements

Examination Report for every experiment

MediaExercises: presentation, black board and chalk


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Literature Physical Foundations of Material Science,G.Gottstein, Springer, 2004


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Area of specialism Physical Metallurgy and Materials:


Name of Module Advanced Physical Metallurgy

Type of Module Module N1 from study major Physical Metallurgy an dMaterials

Courses a) L/E Advanced Physical Metallurgy


Dates of Courses a) Thu. 13:30h -15:00h / Thu. 15:15h - 16:45h


Responsibility Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gnter Gottstein

Lecturer Prof. Dr. Lasar Shvindlerman

Language English


hours per week Lecture: 2Exercise: 2

Work load Presence-Study = 45 hHome-study = 75 h

Credit points 4

Requirements Basic course Physical Metallurgy recommended

Basis for:

Learning targets /

competences to bereached

The students gain a deeper understanding and are

trained in quantitative description of the phenomena andthe processes in condensed matter. They can apply thethermodynamic and kinetic basics of internal interfacesand junctions in polycrystalline materials.

Contents Thermodynamics of interfaces, grain boundary migration,grain growth in polycrystals, grain boundary engineering

Examination Oral exam 30min

Media Lecture: presentation, black board and chalk

Literature G. Gottstein, L.S. Shvindlerman; Grain BoundaryMigration in Metals: Thermodynamics, Kinetics,Applications, 1999 CRC Press


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Name of Module Micromechanics of Materials


Courses a) L/E Micromechanics of Materials


Dates of Courses a) Fr. 10:00 13:00h



Lecturer Apl. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dierk Raabe

Language English


hours per week Lectures: 3


Home-study = 75 h

Credit points4

Requirements Basic course Physical Metallurgy recommended

Basis for:


The lecture enables students to understandmicromechanics in terms of mechanisms based on latticedefects which are valid for certain conditions. Thestudents are able to apply their knowledge to basic aswell as more advanced engineering problems.

Contents Introduction to mechanics of lattice defects (dislocations,interfaces etc.);

Introduction to collective lattice defect behaviour (microbands, shear bands, orange peel, interface mechanics,basics of yield surface, strain percolation, Ridging)

Grain mechanics and polycrystal mechanics (Taylor-

Bishop-Hill, theory of poly crystals, Eshelby Theory).Interface and surface mechanics (grain boundary


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mechanics)

Mechanics of layered structures (polymer coatings onmetals).

Mechanics of biocompatible materials

Mechanics of bilogical materials (bone, Chitin, collagen,cellulose)


Media Lecture: presentation, black board and chalk, computerpresentation, e-learning progam Metis (available viainternet)Exercises: presentation, black board and chalk

Literature D. Raabe, F. Roters, F. Barlat, L.-Q. Chen (eds.), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Juni 2004, ISBN 3-527-30760-5,Continuum Scale Simulation of Engineering Materials:

Fundamentals - Microstructures - Process Applications

D. Raabe: Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, ISBN 3-527-29541-0,1998,Computational Materials Science


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Name of Module Comprehensive Physical Metallurgy Lab


Courses a) Exercise Comprehensive Physical Metallurgy Labb) Exercise Seminar I (Presentation of theoreticaltopics)c) Exercise Seminar II (Presentation of study relatedtopics)

Semester a) Winter semester, 3r semester of master course

b) Summer semester, 2ndsemester of master coursec) on appointment

Dates of Coursesa) Fri. 8:15h 14:00hb) on appointmentc) on appointment



Lecturer Apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dmitri Molodov

Language English


hours per week Practical Training: 7Exercises: 3


Credit points10

Requirements

Basis for:


a) The students are enabled to carry out metallographicsample preparation independently. They can conductexperiments on their own with respect to the topicspresented during the physical lab. They can interpret anddiscuss results obtained from own experiments.b, c) The students will improve their presentation skillsand will learn how to become familiar with a new topic

that was not covered in the lectures.


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Contents a) Solidification with respect to phase diagram Al-Zn ;microstructure and concentration distribution in a castbronze after solidification and homogenization; tensiletests of Cu single and polycrystals; hardening of Alalloys; recrystallization; texture measurements.

b) Changing topics of Physical Metallurgy and MaterialsScience.

c) Presentation about a study-integrated thesis or masterthesis.

Examination a) Report for every experimentb) Presentationc) Presentation

Media Exercises: presentation, black board and chalk

Literature Physical Foundations of Material Science,

G.Gottstein, Springer, 2004


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Area of specialism Process Technology of Metals:


Name of Module Melt treatment and continuous casting

Type of Module Module N1 from study major Process Technology of

Metals

Courses a) L/E/P Unit Operations in Ferrous Metallurgy



Dates of Courses a) Tue. 15:45h 17:15h / on appointment

Please check the dates in Campus Office.Responsibility Prof. Dr.-Ing. D. Senk

Lecturer Prof. Dr.-Ing. D. Senk, scientific staff

Language English


Hours per weekLecture: 2

Exercises: 1

Practices: 1


Home-study = 75 h

Credit points 4

Requirements Basic subject Process Metallurgy and Recycling

Basis for:

Learning targets /

competences to be

reached

The students will be enabled to apply metallurgical

processes and to decide about the most suitable

aggregates for modern iron- and steelmaking. The

students will be capable to dimension the production

processes of different steel types based on

thermodynamic and reaction kinetic principles, types of

aggregates, operation practices and other boundary

conditions.


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Contents Most important processes and operations for the

production of iron and steel

Details of preparation of raw materials (sintering,

pelletising, coke-making) Special topics of production of hot metal and sponge

iron (blast furnace, smelting and direct reduction),

Steel making (basic oxygen furnace, electric arc

furnace), special topics

Melt treatment (ladle and vacuum metallurgy)

Continuous Casting Technology

Examination Written exam 60 min, admission only after successfully

passing of the practice experiments

Media Lecture: Power-Point, Videos, Models, SamplesExercises: Power-Point, Samples;

Practices: Lab-Equipment at the IEHK; online model

Literature Lecture and exercise handouts, state-of-the-art

publications


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Name of Module Unit Operations in Nonferrous Metallurgy

Type of Module Module No2 from study major Process Technology of Metals

Courses

a) Lecture: Unit operations in nonferrous metallurgy

b) Tutorial for the pyro/hydro lab

c) Practice: pyro/hydro lab reduction processes

SemesterSummer semester


Dates of Courses

a) Lecture: Wed. 14:00h 15:30h

b) Tutorial: prior and after the lab experiments

c) Practices: dates to be fixed mutually in a kick off meeting


Responsibility Prof. Dr.-Ing. B. Friedrich

Docents Prof. Dr.-Ing. B. Friedrich, scientific assistants

Language English


hours per week

Lecture: 2

Tutorial: 1

Practices: 2

Work loadPresence-study = 57 h

Home-study = 93 h

Credit points 5

Requirements Basic course Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling

Basis for:

Learning targets /

competences to

be reached

The students become capable to define criteria for the selection

of suitable reactors and to conduct a benchmark study of

competing processes including design, development and

analysis.


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Contents

Reaction-metallurgy of the most important processes for

winning/refining of non ferrous metals:

Rotary kiln, fluidized bed reactor, metal/slag interactions in

converters, aluminothermic reduction, bath melting operations

(ISA-smelt, TBRC, QSL), gas purging, leaching, solventextraction and electrolysis, separation techniques, each with

- Process determining mechanism and parameters

- Thermochemical fundamentals

- Principles of equipment design and scale up

- Methods for product-assessment

- Environmental issues

- Process examples

Examination

written test (duration: 60 min), offered min. three times per year;

admission only after successfully passing the practice

experiments (all signatures)

Media

Lecture: Power-Point; Videos, Models, Samples;

Tutorial: Power-Point; Overhead, Samples, white board;

Practices: Lab-Equipment of the IME (arc furnace; rotary kiln;

pressure leaching, aqueous electrolysis cell, data logging

systems

Literature

Supporting documentation for the lecture and practice tutor.

Additional literature to be recommend are:

1). Rosenquist, Terkel; Principles of Extractive Metallurgy;

Material Science and Engineering Series, McGraw-Hill.Inc,1974;

2). C.B. Alcock, Principles of Pyrometallurgy, Academic

Press,1976;

3). T.Abel, Engh, Principles of Metal Refining, Oxford University

Press,1992;

4). David J. Pickett, Electrochemical Reactor Design, Elsevier

Scientific Publishing Company, 1977;

5). Julion Szekely, Fluid Flow Phenomena in Metals Processing,

Academic Press, 1979;6). Sohn, Wadsworth, Rate Processes of Extractive Metallurgy,

Plenum Press,1979;

7). Ullmanns Encyclopaedia of Industrial Chemistry, Fifth,

Completely Revised Edition, VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH


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Name of Module Casting Processes and Casting Alloys

Type of Module Module No3 from study major Process Technology ofMetals

Courses a) L/Tut/Lab Casting Processes and Casting Alloys


Dates of Courses a) Tue. 10:15h 11:45h / prior and after the labexperiments / dates to be agreed in kick off meeting


Responsibility Prof. Dr.-Ing. A. Bhrig-Polaczek

DocentsProf. Dr.-Ing. A. Bhrig-Polaczek, scientific assistants

LanguageEnglish


Hours per week Lecture: 2Tutorial: 1Practices: 1


Credit points4

RequirementsBasic course Fabrication Technology of Metals

Basis for:


The students will know the metallo-physical basis for themost important characteristics of solidification of castingsand of casting processes under theoretical and hands onaspects. The students will be enabled to identify therelevant relations especially between material propertiesand process parameters. The knowledge of cast alloysand their processing principles will be deepened by labexperiments and tutorial examinations.


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Contents Casting Processes and Casting Alloys:

Basic of solidification; nucleation and grain growth,metallurgy of foundry alloys; sand casting, core making,permanent mold casting; Aluminum, Magnesium and

Steel alloys; Cast iron; Simulation and Modeling ofcasting processes.

Examination Written exam 60 min, admission only after successfullypassing the practice experiments

Media Lecture: Power-Point; Videos; Samples;Tutorial: Power-Point; Overhead; Samples;Practices: Lab-Equipment of the Foundry Institute(furnace; casting equipment; metallographic lab; materialchracterisation).

LiteratureLecture, tutorial text book, literature.


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Name of Module Fundamentals and Solving Methods in Metal Forming

Type of Module Module No 4 from study major Process Technology ofMetals

Courses a) Lecture Fundamentals and Solving Methods in MetalFormingb) Tutorial Fundamentals and Solving Methods in MetalFormingc) Laboratory Fundamentals and Solving Methods inMetal Forming


Dates of Courses a) Tuesday, 08:15 09:45hb) Monday, 15:45 17:15hc) Tuesday, 14:00 15:45h


Responsibility Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Hirt

LecturerProf. Dr.-Ing. G. Hirt, scientific assistants

LanguageEnglish


hours per week Lecture: 2Tutorial: 1Laboratory: 1

Work load presence-study = 45 hhome-study = 75 h

Credit points 4

Requirements Basic course Fabrication Technology of Metals

Basis for:


Knowledge:The students know the possibilities and boundaries ofsolving methods in metal forming including FEM andsimilarity theory.

Understanding:

The students have a detailed understanding ofplastomechanics.


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Application and Analysis:The students are able to analyse the basic processes inmetal forming, to choose an adequate solving methodand to derive the elementary coherences to describe andestimate certain metal forming processes.

Contents Basics of plastomechanics, stress and deformationstates, yield law, differential equations for elementarytheory, boundary conditions

Elementary theory for basic metal forming processes

Similarity theorem and modelling techniques, basicsof FEM

Examination Written exam 60 min, admission only after successfullypassing the practice experiments

Media Lecture: Power-Point; Videos, Models, Samples;Tutorial: Power-Point; Overhead, Samples, white board;

Laboratory: Lab-Equipment of the IBFLiterature T. Altan: Metal forming, American Society for Metals

Lange: Handbook of Metal Forming, Volume 1


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Name of Module Industrial Furnaces

Type of Module Module N5 from study major Process Technology ofMetals

Courses a) L/E Industrial Furnaces


3rdsemester of master course

Dates of Courses a) Wed. 08.15 11.30h


Responsibility Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Pfeifer

Lecturer Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Pfeifer, scientific assistants

Language English


Hours per week L/E 4


Home-study = 75 h

Credit points 4

Requirements Basic subject Transport Phenomena

Basis for:

Learning targets /

competences to be

reached

The students are supposed to be put in the situation to

understand the unit operations which are carried out inindustrial furnaces. They are supposed to classify

furnaces and to be able to evaluate furnaces (energy

balance, efficiency, heat losses). Ultimately they are

supposed to be in the situation to select the suitable

furnace type for a heat treatment task.


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Contents Introduction to Industrial Furnaces

Melting Furnaces

- Electric Arc Furnace Technology

- Induction Melting Furnaces

- Al-Melting Furnaces- Resistance Heating Furnaces

Reheating Furnaces

- Fundamentals of Fuels and Combustion

- Burners

- Energy Balance of Industrial Furnaces

- Efficiency, Air Preheating

- Furnaces for the Production of Semi-Final

Steel Products

Heat Treatment Furnaces

- Batch and Continuous Furnaces

- Annealing under pure H2-atmospheres

- Furnaces for the Heat Treatment of Al


Media Lecture: Power-Point; Overhead

Tutorial: Power-Point; Overhead

Literature Manuscript Industrial Furnaces available at IOB


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Other modules:

Supplementary subject:


Name of Module German Language Course

Type of Module Supplementary subject

Courses Exercises Deutsch als Fremdsprache



Dates of Courses Please check the dates in Campus Office.

Responsibility Dr. Annedore Hnel

Lecturer Dr. Annedore Hnel

Frances Klein

Language German

Curriculum Deutsche Sprachprfung fr Studierende in

englischsprachigen Master-Studiengngen (DSM)Hours per week Exercises: 4


Home-study = 45 h

Credit points 3

Requirements

Basis for Master thesis

Learning targets /

competences to be

reached

German Language courses impart basic knowledge

of the German culture

German Language courses enable to manage

linguistically the workaday communication in the

university environment (residential accommodation,

cafeteria, etc.)

German Language courses provide qualifications for

culturally adequate application documents (CV, letter

of application)

German Language courses impart insights in cultural


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actualities at German universities (aspects of office

hours, contacting with lecturers via email, behaviour

in seminars and lectures

ContentsWeek 1

Get to know

Introduction

Week 2

Orientation in the city

Techniques: learning words and keeping

them in mind

Week 3 Buying foods

Week 4

Communication via phone

Techniques: learning grammar

systematically

Week 5 Calendar, festivals

Holidays

Week 6 Learning and forgetting

Learning psychology

Week 7 German-speaking newspapers

Reading habits

Week 8 When in Rome, do as the Romains do

Cross-cultural experiences

Week 9 Media

Week 10 Applied German geography

Week 11 Inventions and progressWeek 12 Between the cultures

Week 13 Environmental protection

Week 14 The project Europe

Week 15

Job market Germany

Applications

CV


Media

Literature Eurolingua 1-3

So gehts Fertigkeitstraining fr die Grundstufe

Deutsch

At the institute compiled material


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Practical training:


Name of Module Practical Training

Type of Module Practical Training

Courses



Dates of Courses Please check the dates in Campus Office.

Responsibility All Professors of the department of metallurgy andmaterials technology

Lecturer

Language English


Hours per week

Work load Industrial Training = 300 h

Credit points 10

Requirements

Basis for Master thesis

Learning targets /

competences to bereached

The industrial training provides the students an insight

into the chosen occupational field; delivers a first guidefor a future professional life and an impression of the

social relations in industry. The possibility to get to know

industrial processes enables a deeper understanding of

and motivation for their studies.

Contents Fabrication and processing of materials

Business procedures

Examination Presentation

MediaLiterature


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Student research project:


Name of Module Student Research Project

Type of Module Student Research Project

Courses Please check the dates in Campus Office.



Dates of Courses

Responsibility All Professors of the department of metallurgy and

materials technology

Lecturer

Language English


Hours per week

Work load Student Research Project = 240 h

Credit points 8

Requirements

Basis for: Master Thesis

Learning targets /competences to be

reached

Independent working on a problem in the area ofexpertise of the student within a given period according

to scientific methods guided by a supervisor.

Contents Selected task within a research and development project,

theoretically or experimentally, including independent

information sourcing, structuring of the topic, and

exposition of the investigations, presentation and

defence of the thesis.

Examination Written thesis

Media


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Literature Dependent on thesis topic


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Name of Module Master Thesis

Type of Module Master Thesis

Courses Please check the dates in Campus Office.


4thsemester of master course

Dates of Courses

Responsibility All Professors of the department of metallurgy and

materials technologyLecturer

Language English


Hours per week

Work load Written thesis = 810 h

Colloquium = 90 h

Credit points 30

Requirements

Basis for:

Learning targets /

competences to be

reached

Independent working on a problem in the area of

expertise of the student within a given period according

to scientific methods guided by a supervisor.

Contents Selected task within a research and development project,

theoretically or experimentally, including independent

information sourcing, structuring of the topic, exposition

of the investigations, presentation and defence of the

thesis.

Examination Weighting

Written thesis 90 %

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