Department of Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing

Course Outline

  

MFGT 310-           Materials and Quality Testing– 3.0 Units

 

 

Prerequisite:           MFGT 041, MFGT 051, MATH 9A, PHYS 2A

 

Course Times:           Lecture        M,W          11 PM – 11:50 PM              OCNL 123

                             Lab              W          5 PM   – 7:50 PM              OCNL 130

 

Instructor:              Brian Smith

                             (Web page: http://www.csuchico.edu/~jpgreene)

Lab Assistant:          Brian Blanco

 

Office:                   TBD

                             Home Phone:           530-899-8720

                             Work:                             530-230-1516

                                               

 

Course Objective: Provide students a thorough study of metals and polymer materials, material properties and testing methods.

 

Laboratory Objectives: Provide students a thorough knowledge of the testing methods and laboratory procedures for plastic, composite, and metal materials.

 

Textbook and Reference Books:

·        ·        Material Science for Engineers, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2000

·        ·        Lab Manual, Available on class webpage (http://www.csuchico.edu/~jpgreene)     

·        ·        Lab Notebook, Available from SPE student chapter

 

Fee: $7 fee paid by the 3rd week of the semester or the student will be dropped.

 

Safety: Safety glasses with side shields must be purchased by the student (Available from SPE student chapter) and worn at all times in the lab.  Failure to do so will result in the student being removed from the lab and being dropped from the class.  The student must read, understand and follow all safety procedures at all times.  If there are any questions about the process, operation, or safe handling of materials, the student must talk to the instructor.

Grading

          1 Midterm exam                                                  20%

1 Final exam                                                   20%

Class quizzes                                                        10%

          Lab           (3 Lab Reports + notebook + quizzes)              30%

Literature Review          (2 papers)                                     10%

Homework                                                            10%                     

                                                                                      100%

 

 

EXAMS & QUIZZES

Quizzes and tests can have 1 page of notes. Make-up exams and quizzes are closed book and notes unless prior arrangements are made.

 

Note: Grades will be reduced 1 full grade for each week assignment is late.

 

LABS

1.     Lab Experiments:

·        Each student works in a team to conduct experiments to determine mechanical or physical properties of the material sample.  Each student will complete a lab data sheet for each lab. Each student will organize the data in a lab notebook to record material and testing information during the lab experiments. The information will include experiment purpose, equipment, experimental methods, experimental results, observations, and conclusions. The notebook will be graded in lab according to effectiveness and organization of the data. The format of the notebook will be provided in class. Be sure to answer the questions in the back of each lab for the lab. The notebook will be graded every week for the work from the previous week.

·        Each student will participate in a group assignment for 8 lab experiments. Each student group (5 students max) is required to complete a lab assignment and turn in results. The experiments are selected from the following list.

 

1.     1.     Specimen preparation and microscopic examination

2.     2.     Hardness tests, density test, and property conversion

3.     3.     Tensile and Flexural tests of metals and polymers

4.     4.     Modification of mechanical properties by cold work

5.     5.     Precipitation hardening

6.     6.     Stress concentration

7.     7.     Determination of hardenability curves with Cold Working

8.     8.     Impact toughness and ductile-brittle transition

9.     9.     Determination of glass transition of polymers with DSC

10.            10.            Photolithography in microfabrication

11. 11. Polyphase alloys

12. 12. Anodizing aluminum alloys

13. 13. Melt index and rheology of plastic materials

14.            14.            FTIR measurements of plastic samples

15. 15. Impact Testing with notched Izod and Charpy

16. 16. Scanning Electron Microscopy

 

2. Lab Reports:

Each student group will complete 3 formal lab reports describing several material samples, e.g., ferrous, non-ferrous, plastic, and composite. Be sure to answer the questions in the back of each lab for the lab reports.

§        Report 1 from Hardness Testing lab. Due Sept 19, 2005

§        Report 2 from Tensile Testing lab. Due Oct 17, 2005

§        Report 3 from Stress Concentration. Due Nov 14, 2005

 

The format of the reports will be provided in class.

 

Note: Each lab report must be signed by each lab member signifying that each member worked on the lab.

 

Literature Review

2 summary papers on any current article (2004 or 2005) concerning materials testing of polymers, composites, ferrous, and non-ferrous materials. Available resources include Modern Plastics, Plastics Technology, ANTEC Proceedings, Plastics Briefs, Journal of Polymer Engineering and Science. (2 to 3 pages typed with 1” margins and double spaced). 

 

Due Dates

§        Paper 1: Sept 12, 2005

§        Paper 2: Oct 3, 2005

 

MFGT 310 Format for Lab Reports

 

Lab Report Title

 

 

Names and signatures

MFGT 310

Date

 

 

(new page)

Introduction

·        ·        Give purpose of the lab experiment.

·        ·        Background if necessary of the experiment.

 

Materials

·        ·        Materials used to run experiment.  Include product name, chemistry, supplier, etc…

 

Equipment

·        ·        Equipment used for Experiment.  Identify name, size, manufacturer, etc…

 

Procedure

·        ·        List the procedure to run equipment.

 

Results

·        ·        Describe your results.  List the data in table form and then summarize the data in graph form with Excel

 

Conclusions and Recommendations

·        ·        Give conclusions and recommendation that you can draw from your experiment. Answer the questions from the lab assignment.