Week - 1 |
Importance of Characterisation; Classification of Characterisation Techniques; Why Different Characterisation Techniques; Specimen Preparation; |
Week - 2 |
Properties and production of x-rays |
Week - 3 |
Diffraction and Bragg law |
Week - 4 |
The use of x-rays in materials characterisation |
Week - 5 |
The factors effecting the intensity of diffracted peaks |
Week - 6 |
Calculation of expected theoric patterns obtained from x-ray diffraction |
Week - 7 |
The identification of phases in x-ray diffraction patterns obtained from different materials |
Week - 8 |
Thermal analysis techniques and properties to be measured by thermal analysis |
Week - 9 |
Thermogravimetric analysis (TG) and the interpretation of the TG curves |
Week - 10 |
Differantial thermal analysis (DTA), differantial scanning calorimetre (DSC) and simultaneous thermal analysis (STA) |
Week - 11 |
Interpretation of DTA and DSC curves and dilatometry and the analysis of the curves |
Week - 12 |
The parameters effecting the thermal analysis results and quantitative analysis |