05-MCM-PR Structure Property Relationships

Brief Introduction to Materials, Structures and Properties
1. Historical Perspective, Crystalline and Non-crystalline Materials, Polycrystalline and Bulk Properties
2. Bond Valence Theory and State-of-the-Arts
3. Defects and Distortions Thermal Properties of Materials
4. Thermal Expansion (General Overview, Isotropic, and Anisotropic Thermal Expansion)
5. Thermal Expansion Coefficients, Anisotropic Factor, Grüneisen Function
6. Mathematical Treatment (Modeling) of Thermal Parameters
7. Low Temperature (sub-zero) Stability Magnetic Properties of Materials
8. General Overview and Hysteresis
9. Neutrons, Magnetism and Magnetic Structures Tensor Properties of Materials
10. General Overview, Rank and Representation
11. Thermal Expansion Tensors
12. Electrical Conductivity Tensors Property Investigations and Tools
13. Case study-1 (Sodalites, X-ray diffraction, IR, NMR)
14. Case study-2 (Mullites, Neutron Diffraction, Pair Distribution Function)

Passing this module, the students should be able to understand, describe and use topics of the following areas:
• crystalline and non-crystalline solids, • thermal expansion of solids
• magnetism and magnetic structures
• tensor properties of solids
• to correlate structures and their properties in case studies

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Course Type 1: Lecture (L) 2.0 SWS ( 28.0 h)

Course Type 2: Seminar (S) 2.0 SWS ( 28.0 h)

Tutorial(s): -

56.0 h presence time
60.0 h self-study
64.0 h exam workload

180 h total workload

partial exam

exam elements: 2
SL: 0

50 % written exam
50 % assignment

will be given at the beginning of the module