Course Overview

> Objectives: Whatever the nature of materials (organic, mineral),
their structure can be tailored at different scales as soon as a  
right choice of manufacturing process is completed. This controlled
degree of structuration allows new properties to be obtained,  from
nanometric to macroscopic scales.
 
> Mastered competences: Know how to make a material and to control its
microstructure at different scales. Experience the  physical and
chemical phenomena that permit the modulation and/or modification of
the properties (chemical, physical - optic,  electric, mechanic,
etc.). Approach of the integrative chemistry, to manufacture materials
according to requirements of the  specifications.

Learning Achievement

Competence

Course prerequisites

- Academic level: BSc / Master 1.
- Language prerequisites: English.

Grading Philosophy

Intermidiate evaluation (3 hours) (40%)
Project (20%) Closed-book final exam (3 hours) (40%)

Course schedule

I. METHODS FOR THE FABRICATION OF AMORPHOUS AND CRYSTALLISED CERAMICS:
BULK AND THIN FILMS
> Sintering processes for ceramic including liquid sintering:

- Mechanisms and parameters controlling the sintering steps
- Methods for the characterisations of the sintered ceramics

- Glass metals and vitroceramics

> Ceramic coatings and thin films

- Relationship between the processin technics (chemical end physical
depositions) and the properties (morphology, composition,)
- Example of applications (mechanic, optic, tribology...)

II. MODIFICATIONS OF METALS PROPERTIES

- Reminders on thermodynamics
- Nucleation mechanism: associated driving force, critical radius,
etc.
- Thermal treatments and control of precipitation states
- Plastic deformation and precipitation hardening
- Some examples

III. POROUS MATERIALS

- Generalities and definitions
- Geometrical description
- Experimental techniques to characterize porous materials
- Properties and applications

IV. COMPOSITE MATERIALS

- Definition of the concept of composite materials,rule of mixture
about properties
- Various application examples, selection criteria for these
materials
- Introduction to the mechanical damage into composite materials
- The different kinds of reinforcements : nature and architecture
- Criteria of failure for brittle materials (Weibull, Griffith, etc.)
- Organic matrix composites (OMC) (in view of glass, carbon, and
organic fiber reinforcement): description of different classes of
matrices, main properties of thermosetting and thermoplastic polymers
applied to fiber composites materials. Use of crosslinking of liquid
resins, and /or processing of thermoplastic molten polymers for bulk
pieces
- Main properties of polymers useful for composites. Fiber / Matrix
interactions and bonding
- Resin impregnation of reinforcements
- Types of processes of bulk pieces , injection, compression,
filament winding, stamping, various types of molding, hand processes,
discontinuous, continuous
- Examples of industrial processes vs. processing type, vs. pieces
fabrication, vs. matrix type
- The MMC (metallic matrix composites): Fiber / Matrix interactions
and bonding., impregnation of fibrous textures by a metal, to have an
interest in developing such composites
- The CMC (ceramic matrix composites): specificity of junctions
between brittle materials, the transposition of common  ceramic
manufacturing to the consolidation of fibrous or porous architectures,
the thermostrucural applications.

Course type

- Lectures, projects and excercise sessions: 51 hours total. - 105 Self-study hours: (65 hours private reading, 40 hours exam preparation).

Online Course Requirement

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:

- Sol-gel process: J. Brinker,
- J. Philibert, A. Vignes, Y. Bréchet et P. Combrade, Métallurgie
du minerai au matériau, éd. Dunod, Paris (France), 1998.
- P. Boch (sous la direction de), Matériaux et processus
céramiques, Paris, Hermès Science Publications, 2001
- W.D. Kingery, H.K. Bowen, D.R. Uhlmann,Introduction to Ceramics, A
Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1975,- C. Filliatre et R. Daviaud,
Introduction aux matériaux composites - 1 - Matrices organiques,
édition CNRS, 1985
- R. Naslain, Introduction aux matériaux composites 2. Matrices
métalliques et céramiques, édition CNRS et IMC, 1985
- D. Gay, Matériaux composites, édition Hermès, 1987

> This course is part of the Erasmus Mundus Master FAME (Functional
Advanced Materials Engineering)_ a_nd the EIT-labelled Master AMIS
(AdvancedMaterials for Innovation and Sustainability).

Duration: 8 weeks

Language of instruction: English
Mode of delivery: Face-to-face teaching

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