Chapter 1 - Introduction

• What is materials science?

• Why should we know about it?
• What is materials engineering?
• What is the difference between materials science
and materials engineering?
• Why should mechanical engineers study
materials science/engineering?

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Evolution of Engineering Materials
• The ages man has lived have been named
after the dominant materials being used
– Stone Age
– Bronze Age
– Iron Age
– Now?
• Silicon Age?
• Polymer Age?
• People in certain cultures were buried with
prized possessions that represented state
of the art technology of the time, e.g.
swords, shields, household items
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Evolution of Engineering Materials
• If such a culture existed today, people
would be buried with titanium wrist
watches, carbon fiber racquets, Si-based
electronic gadgets/mobiles
• The evolution of engineering materials
increased in pace during the past century

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 Materials Science and
Engineering
• Materials Science
– Investigating relationships that exist between the
structure and properties of materials
• Materials Engineering
– On the basis of these structure-property
correlations, designing or engineering the
structure of a material to produce a pre-determined
set of properties

The four components of the discipline of materials science and engineering and
their interrelationship

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 Example – Hip Implant
• With age or certain illnesses joints deteriorate.
Particularly those with large loads (such as hip).

Adapted from Fig. 22.25, Callister 7e.

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 Example – Hip Implant

• Requirements
– mechanical
strength (many
cycles)
– good lubricity
– biocompatibility

Adapted from Fig. 22.24, Callister 7e.

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Example – Hip Implant

Adapted from Fig. 22.26, Callister 7e. Chapter 1 - 7

 Hip Implant
• Key problems to overcome
– fixation agent to hold Ball
acetabular cup
– cup lubrication material
– femoral stem – fixing agent
Acetabular
(“glue”)
Cup and Liner
– must avoid any debris in cup

Femoral
Stem
Adapted from chapter-opening
photograph, Chapter 22, Callister 7e.

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 Types of Materials
• Metals:
– Strong, ductile
– high thermal & electrical conductivity
– opaque, reflective.

• Polymers/plastics: Covalent bonding  sharing of e’s

– Soft, ductile, low strength, low density
– thermal & electrical insulators
– Optically translucent or transparent.

• Ceramics: ionic bonding (refractory) – compounds of metallic

& non-metallic elements (oxides, carbides, nitrides, sulfides)
– Brittle, glassy, elastic
– non-conducting (insulators)

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 Types of Materials
• Composites:
– Consist of more than one material type
– Designed to display a combination of the best characteristics of
constituent materials.

• Semiconductors: Soft, ductile, low strength, low density

– Electrical properties intermediate between electrical conductors
and insulators
– These materials have made possible the advent of ICs

• Biomaterials:
– Must be bio-compatible
– Must not produce toxic substances
– Must not cause adverse biological reactions.
– Brittle, glassy, elastic
– non-conducting (insulators)

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 Types of Materials

Bar-chart of room temperature density values for various

metals, ceramics, polymers, and composite materials
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 Materials of the Future

Smart Materials
Smart (or intelligent) materials are a group of new and
state-of-the-art materials
now being developed that will have a significant influence
on many of our technologies.
The adjective “smart” implies that these materials are able
to sense changes
in their environments and then respond to these changes in
predetermined manners—
traits that are also found in living organisms

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 Materials of the Future
Nano engineered Materials
With the advent of scanning probe microscopes (Section
4.10), which permit observation of individual atoms and
molecules, it has become possible to manipulate and move
atoms and molecules to form new structures and, thus, design
new materials that are built from simple atomic-level
constituents (i.e., “materials by design”).
This ability to carefully arrange atoms provides opportunities to
develop mechanical, electrical, magnetic, and other properties
that are not otherwise possible.
We call this the “bottom-up” approach, and the study of
the properties of these materials is termed nanotechnology”;
the “nano” prefix denotes that the dimensions of these
structural entities are on the order of a nanometer
(109 m)—as a rule, less than 100 nanometers
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 The Materials Selection Process
1. Pick Application Determine required Properties
Properties: mechanical, electrical, thermal,
magnetic, optical, deteriorative.

2. Properties Identify candidate Material(s)

Material: structure, composition.

3. Material Identify required Processing

Processing: changes structure and overall shape
ex: casting, sintering, vapor deposition, doping
forming, joining, annealing.

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 ELECTRICAL
• Electrical Resistivity of Copper:
6 Adapted from Fig. 18.8, Callister 7e.
t %Ni (Fig. 18.8 adapted from: J.O. Linde,
a
5 3 .32 Ann Physik 5, 219 (1932); and
+ C.A. Wert and R.M. Thomson,
Cu Ni
Resistivity, 

Physics of Solids, 2nd edition,

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(10-8 Ohm-m)

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• Adding “impurity” atoms to Cu increases resistivity.
• Deforming Cu increases resistivity.
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