Mechanical Behaviour of Materials — GATE Metallurgical Engineering (M…
Mechanical Behaviour of Materials for GATE Metallurgical Engineering (MT): all 6 topics, with study resources and previous year questions for each.
Topics in Mechanical Behaviour of Materials
- Mechanical Behaviour of Materials (GATE MT) — Elasticity; strain tensor and stress tensor; representation by Mohr’s circle; uniaxial tensile testing and stress-strain curves for metals, ceramics, and polym…
- Dislocation Theory (GATE MT) — Dislocation Theory: Edge, screw and mixed dislocations; sources and multiplication of dislocations; stress fields around dislocations; partial dislocations; di…
- Strengthening Mechanisms (GATE MT) — Strengthening Mechanisms: Work/strain hardening, strengthening due to grain boundaries, solid solution, precipitation and dispersion.
- Fracture behaviour (GATE MT) — Fracture behaviour: Griffith theory; linear elastic fracture mechanics; fracture toughness; fractography; ductile to brittle transition; toughening mechanisms…
- Fatigue (GATE MT) — Fatigue: Low and high cycle fatigue; crack growth.
- High Temperature deformation (GATE MT) — High Temperature deformation: Mechanisms of high temperature deformation and failure; creep and stress rupture, stress exponent and activation energy.