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MSE 811 Material Thermodynamics
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Campus
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SCME
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Programs
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PG
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Session
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Fall Semester 2016
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Course Title
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Material Thermodynamics
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Course Code
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MSE 811
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Credit Hours
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3
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Pre-Requisutes
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Course Objectives
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- Understand basic laws of thermodynamics along with clear understanding of kinetics of chemical reactions.
- Be able to read phase diagrams in terms of thermodynamic concepts such as free energy.
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Detail Content
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- Concepts of Helmholtz Free Energy and Gibbs Free Energy,
- Energy-Property relationships, Thermal Equilibria, Chemical Equilibria,
- Ellingham Diagrams, 1st order and 2nd order Transformations,
- Gibbs Helmholtz Relationships, Fugacity and Chemical activity,
- Equilibrium constant and its variation with temperature, Vant Hoff’s equation,
- Effect of temperature and pressure on phase transformations,
- Clapeyron equation, Thermodynamics of solutions, Gibbs-Duhem relationship,
- Thermodynamic properties and equilibrium phase diagrams, Mixing functions,
- Excess functions, Phase Rule, Gibbs free Energy and Entropy Calculations of Phase transformation, Typical Equilibrium Phase Diagrams, Statistical Methods in thermodynamics
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Text/Ref Books
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- Thermodynamics of Materials (David V. Ragone) Wiley; Volume 1 edition (October 24, 1994)
- Introduction to Thermodynamics of Materials (D. R. Gaskell) Taylor & Francis; 5 edition (March 13, 2008)
- Thermodynamics, an Advanced Text for Material Scientists (J. Hudson) John-Wiley, 1996
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Time Schedule
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Fall Semester 2014
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Faculty/Resource Person
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Dr. Amir Habib
Degree : PhD, Analytical and Technical Chemistry: University of Technology Vienna, Austria.
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