Links to more teaching material, by module
- General
- Materials in everyday life (car, airplane, bicycle, etc).
- Bicycle metallurgy.
- Cast Irons: phase diagram and microstructures.
- Polymers and Liquid Crystals: offers an on-line textbook and a virtual lab.
- Module A: Structure
- About ferroelectricity.
- Introduction to Crystallography and Mineral Crystal Systems by Mike and Darcy Howard.
- Crystallography online : an impressive number of teaching pamphlets.
- Making Matter: the atomic structure of materials.
- A self-paced tutorial on Symmetry in Point groups and Lattices as applied to crystallography. Part of Birkbeck College's computer-based teaching programme in Crystallography. Runs on a PC running MS-Windows and may be downloaded from this site.
- A page offering an introduction to the geometry of quasicrystals, and a tutorial to Quasitiler.
- Module B: Mechanical Properties
- Impact toughness: a very complete page on toughness and the Charpy impact test. Lots of micrographs illustrating different failure modes and relating microstructure to toughness. Videos of Chapry impact tests.
- Module C: Phase Equilibria
- Thermodynamic Modeling of Multicomponent Phase Equilibria: a review paper on the CALPHAD (CALculation of PHase Diagrams) method and recent development.
- Module E: Anisotropic properties