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Introduction
Architecture and Cohesion of Solids
Introduction
Generalities on the atomic structure
Interatomic bonding
Notions of order and disorder
Crystallography
Crystal lattices
Crystal direction and planes
Structures of solids
Solids with metallic bonding
Solids with covalent bonding
Solids with ionic bonding
Structure of polymers
Properties related to the crystal structure
X-rays and Crystals
Introduction
Generalities on X-rays
X-ray production
Principle
The X-ray spectrum
X-ray tubes
X-ray absorption
X-ray vs material interactions
X-ray detection
Fluorescent screens
Photographic detection
Counters
Methods of investigation using x-rays
X-ray crystallography
History
Bragg's law
Diffraction intensity
The main experimental methods
A few applications of x-ray crystallography methods
Defects in Solids
Introduction
Point defects
Linear defects
History
Geometric description
Dislocation movement
Elastic properties of dislocations
Bi-dimensional defects
Grain boundaries
Stacking faults and twins
Three-dimensional defects
Alloys and Phase Diagrams
Introduction
Solid solutions
Introduction
Primary Solid Solutions
Interstitial Solid Solutions
Substitutional Solid Solutions
Ordered Solutions
Stoichiometric compounds
General
Importance and Interest of Intermetallic Compounds
Phase Diagrams
General
Case of Eutectic Transformation
Case of Eutectoid Transformations
Segregation Phenomena
Solidification at the scale of the ingot or the cast part
Phase transformations
Diffusion
Introduction
Diffusion mechanisms
Phenomenological diffusion laws: Fick's equations
Some Applications
Phase transformations
Introduction
Nucleation and growth of a new phase
TTT diagrams
Diffusionless transformations
Material stressed, material strained
Introduction
Materials subject to static stress
Tensile curve
Elasticity, plasticity and behaviour law
Ductility, fragility and the ductile-brittle transition
fracture surfaces
Residual stresses
Thermal stresses
Notions of fracture mechanics
Introduction
Stress intensity factor
Toughness
Fatigue behaviour
Introduction
Overall approach: Wölher curves
Differential approach: Paris law
Crack initiation, propagation and failure analysis
Fatigue damage
Creep behaviour
Introduction
Creep tests
Microstructural mechanisms
Larson-Miller parameters
Hardening methods
Introduction
Hardening without heat treatment
Hardening with heat treatment
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