Group B
Heat treatment. Iron-carbon system. Annealing, normalising, hardening, critical
cooling rate,
hardenability, age hardening, surface hardening, tempering.
Thermal properties. High temperature materials, materials for cryogenic application,
thermally
insulating materials. (Specific heat, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion).
Ceramic materials and polymers. Silicon structures, polymerism fraction in glass,
electrical
properties of ceramic phases, rocks, building stones, refractories.
Polymerisation mechanism, structural properties of polymer, thermoplastics,
thermosets,
elastomer, resins,
composites, particle and fibre reinforced composite. Composite material including
nano
material.
Electronic properties. Magnetism, dimagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism,
magnetic
energy, zone theory of solids, zones in conductors and insulators.




