MSE 606- Bulk Metallic Glasses

First Semester, 2015-2016

Catalog Data

MSE 606- Bulk Metallic Glasses.

Credit 3.
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs); formation, classification, structure,
properties, applications, advantages, disadvantages; Processing of bulk
metallic glasses.

Prerequisites:

Graduate Standing

Textbook

The course material will be obtained from the textbook [Bulk Metallic
Glasses, ISBN 9781420085969], and from many published journal
reviews and articles about processing and fabrication of bulk metallic
glasses.

References

Y.Q. Cheng and E. Ma, Atomic-level structure and structure-property

relationship in metallic glasses, Progress in Materials Science, 56,
2011, 379-473.
M.M. Trexler and N.N. Thadhani, Mechanical properties of bulk
metallic glasses, Progress in Materials Science, 55, 2010, 759-839.
Jayalakshmi and Gupta, Metallic Amorphous Alloy Reinforcements in
Light Metal Matrices, Springer, 2015.
Suryanarayana and Inoue, Iron-based bulk metallic glasses,
International Materials Reviews, 2013, p 131-166
Wang, Roles of minor additions in formation and properties of bulk
metallic glasses, Progress in materials Science, 52, 2007, P 540-596.

Instructor

Dr. Ahmad A. Sorour, Assistant Professor

Goals

This course is intended to give the student in-depth knowledge of the

bulk metallic glasses and focus on the processing and fabrication of
bulk metallic glasses. The results of this effort will help the student in
his MSc research area.

Outcomes

The student is expected to

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Understand the effects of various process parameters on the

material structures and properties of BMGs.

Understand the challenging in processing BMGs and similar alloys.

Write a complete literature review that will be published in a

referred journal and/or be a chapter in his thesis.

Design and conduct initial fabrications of BMG.

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Topics:
1. Introduction to bulk metallic glasses (BMG)
2. Formation, classification, structure and properties of BMG.
3. Applications, advantages, disadvantages of BMGs.
4. Processing of BMGs.
Evaluation
The student will meet with the course Instructor on a weekly basis and submit two progress
reports and one final report to the Instructor. He will also make a presentation at the end of
the semester. The final report and the presentation will be evaluated by the Instructor and the
Mechanical Engineering Department graduate committee. The Committee may nominate a
panel of faculty in the course area (including the course instructor) to evaluate the report and
the presentation.
Grading
Weekly meetings

30%

Progress Reports

30% (15% each)

Final Report

25% (15 % by Instructor and 10 % by panel)

Oral presentation

15% (panel)