Materials for Transport Applications

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• A structured approach to materials selection for engineering applications involving two and more properties.
• The relations between composition, processing, thermodynamics, microstructure and properties of key engineering materials in transport applications.
• Understand the main principles of thermodynamic modelling phase diagram software and the main materials selection software package.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Be able to appreciate and discuss with specialists the factors involving materials selection for complex designs.
• Relate microstructure and micromechanisms to the main properties of materials.
• Analyse the relations between microstructure, composition and main properties of key metallic alloys used in transport applications.
• Be able to appreciate and discuss with specialists the material lifecycle including recycling and manufacturing waste.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Read and understand higher order phase diagrams.
• Recognize and assess the relevance of some of the common microstructural features in structural materials observed by optical microscopy and electron microscopy.
• Make materials selections for designs with medium complexity, in relation to minimum cost, minimum weight, and minimum energy consumption criteria.

Full CEng Programme Level Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• The various stages of life cycle assessment are important to consider in the context of transportation applications. The students have to identify within various transport contexts the influence that different materials selections have on overall sustainability of the application and justify during their final examination how the choice of material impacts in this regard.
• The context of how decisions to apply different materials to transport applications is infleunced by commercial drivers is considered in light of both engineering performance but also safety critical issues and is assessed descriptively during online formative assessment and summative examination.
• The use of Ansys Granta EduPack and Thermocalc software during the coursework computer laboratory allows students the freedom to deploy their own choices of materials and manufacturing processes to fulfill the specific engineering requirements of selected engineering components from the aerospace, automotive and marine sectors.
• The course is largely based around the correct selection of both material but also processing routes used for transport applications. This is assessed continuously through online formative quizzes, a coursework submission and the final examination.
• The selection of materials for transport enegineering components is often depedent upon multiple factors and the students have to appreciate and rationalise the most relevant criteria when the answer online formative quizzes based on each material chapter.
• The context of how decisions to apply different materials to transport applications is infleunced by commercial drivers is considered in light of both engineering performance but also safety critical issues and is assessed descriptively during online formative assessment and summative examination.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Work as materials specialist as part of design teams

Philosophy of Materials Selection for Design:

• Philosophy of Materials Selection for Design.
• Cost of ownership, and the materials properties that define this.
• The main aspects of processing of metallic alloys used in transport applications.
• Materials selection for minimum cost, minimum weight, and minimum energy consumption.
• Material lifecycle including production, manufacturing waste and recycling.
• Materials, sustainability and the environment.

Ferrous alloys for transport applications

• The relations between microstructure and properties of metallic alloys, and especially the micromechanisms of strengthening and deformation.
• Cast iron metallurgy and case studies in transport
• High strength steel and case studies in transport

Light Alloys for transport applications

• Aluminium alloys and strengthening theory.
• Metal Matrix Composites.
• Automotive and Aerospace Al alloys.
• Magnesium, production, metallurgy and use.
• Light weight transport case studies.

Titanium alloys:

• Titanium alloys.
• Alpha, beta and alpha + beta alloys.
• Ti alloy processing.
• Ti alloys for turbine engines.

Nickel based superalloys:

• Ni superalloy metallurgy.
• Ni superalloys for turbine engines.
• Coating systems for Ni turbine blades.

Ceramics, intermetallics, hybrid materials, structural glasses.

Revision lectures.

Lectures which develop the themes described in this module. Notes are given out at the start of the course, which means you only have to note down some key points during the lecture, but still have a full set of notes to work from.

The teaching is supported by web-based teaching (http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk/). This provides additional teaching material in the form of links to relevant websites, (links to) relevant technical papers, and quizzes on selected chapters with feedback.

Learning activities include

• Access to exam question bank.
• Online Quizzes and questions on Blackboard, with instantaneous on-line feedback and feedback in lectures where common mistakes are discussed.
• Revision questions set by lecturers which are intended for (small group) self-study.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Quizzes and Questions

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: • Quizzes on Blackboard which provide instant feedback. • Group feedback sessions (5 in total) on Blackboard quizzes during the timetabled sessions. • Discussion on each e-mailed or verbally communicated question in the next timetabled session. • Revision sessions in which past exam questions are discussed. Selection of exam question is based on e-mailed requests from students. • After last lecture: e-mailed responses by lecturer to e-mailed individual questions.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.