Subject Code: ML6L009	Name:  Advanced Physical Metallurgy	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): None
Microstructure & Properties: solidification and solidification structures, interfaces, crystallographic texture, residual stress, structure-property relations. Plasticity and work-hardening: fundamentals, stress-strain behavior, fracture, creep & deformation mechanisms. Recovery, recrystallization, grain growth. Phase transformation: thermodynamic basics, nucleation and growth, spinodal decomposition, martensitic transformations. Texts / Reference Books: R. E. Smallman PhD and A.H.W. Ngan, Physical Metallurgy and Advanced Materials, Seventh Edition.