Programme Outlines and Overviews

Liquid Metal Processing 7.5 credits

Course content

The critical content is related to preparing aluminium alloys, including light metal scrap recycling technologies, melt refining, and impurity control to enable the sustainable management of circular materials. The fundamental mechanisms of solidification and different conditions for the formation of microstructure during solidification and casting defects will be taught. Finally, microstructural engineering, such as grain refinement and microstructural modification for desired properties, will be discussed. The course includes the following elements: - The effect of dissolved impurities and inclusions on the mechanical properties of metal products - Thermodynamics and transport properties relevant for the removal of dissolved elements and inclusions from molten metals and the addition of alloying elements - Industrial melt management practice for aluminium alloys and sustainable circular materials management - Solidification and microstructural control formation through homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation for grain refinement - Primary phase growth and morphological control with Interface stability and constitutional undercooling and modification - Multiphase reactions such as eutectics and peritectic - Mushy zone characteristics and their importance for casting defect formation - Practical melting, melt treatment and casting laboration - Industrial case studies as a group assignment

Entry requirements

The applicant must hold the minimum of a bachelor’s degree (i.e the equivalent of 180 ECTS credits at an accredited university) with at least 90 credits in Materials and Manufacturing, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Product Development or Engineering Physics or equivalent. The bachelor’s degree should comprise a minimum of 15 credits in Mathematics. Proof of English proficiency is required.

Level: Second cycle

Course/Ladok-code: T2SOSQ

School: School of Engineering