Course Summary
The course aims to enable you to develop an understanding of materials requirements for the automotive industry with particular emphasis on the light-weighting, safety and energy absorption, recycling, whole life cost and globalisation effects. Primary focus of the course is to provide a link between design, materials and manufacturing through a sound understanding of structure-processing-property relationship of automotive materials.
The course includes the following key topics:
- Fundamentals for advanced manufacturing of metallic materials for Automotive applications - Phase diagrams, phase transformations and strengthening mechanisms
- Aluminium alloys
- Cast irons and steels
- Titanium alloys and intermetallic alloys
- Metal matrix composites and metallic glass alloys
- Conventional manufacturing and additive manufacturing
- Engineering polymers: Property/processing relationship; temperature, time dependency of physical properties
- Composite materials
- Materials selection and databases
- Energy materials
- Recycling and design for recycling; end of life issues.