MTE3541 Materials durability

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Describe the factors that causes material wear and the practice of techniques for improving the properties of surfaces for engineering applications.

2. 2

   Analyse and discuss the possible wear mode of a particular substrate and propose two ways of surface protection and properties improvement taking into account the selection factors for wear-resistant surface treatments.

3. 3

   Conduct, interpret and analyse a laboratory experiment to understand two widely-used surface treatments for the production of surface with useful engineering properties.

4. 4

   Discern the various causes and manifestations of corrosion, in particular with regards to metallic corrosion. Draws on practical examples from the built environment.

5. 5

   Analyse the mode of corrosion occurring as a result of various material and environment combinations. Apply practical and relevant engineering solutions to a corrosion remediation scenario.

6. 6

   Execute corrosion testing on a range of metals in the context of a laboratory experiment using environmental exposure and electrochemical methods. Appreciate the results in the context of materials selection and durability.

7. 7

   Describe the factors that cause liquids to spread and adhesives to bond on a variety of surfaces of different structure and surface energy.

8. 8

   Discuss in detail the factors that affect the adhesion of a particular adhesive-substrate pair from an example in the adhesion literature.

9. 9

   Conduct, interpret and analyse a laboratory experiment which looks at the relationship between wetting and adhesion in a real system.