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That sounds big. I still remember the horrors from my two mandatory terms of material science. "The school of 'ALCHMI' argues this is what gives the alloy prop
by FrojoS 14y ago
That sounds big. I still remember the horrors from my two mandatory terms of material science.
"The school of 'ALCHMI' argues this is what gives the alloy property X, while the school 'HOCUS'says, its the sudden drop off at xx deg in the Iron-carbon phase diagram ...."
Maybe it wasn't that bad, but it never felt like a precise science to me, at least compared to the other subjects you take as Mechi, like Math, Dynamics or Controls.
The abstract (Thank you montecarl) only talks about "nanostructured metals" though. I wonder if this scales.
- blix 14y agoIn defense of MatSE, you only took the course for non-majors (I assume). I assure you that it gets a lot more legit after that, much in the same way MechE gets more interesting once you move past statics. To answer your question though, the model doesn't scale, but that's because the problem doesn't scale. We're talking about a bulk sample of metal made up of crystals that are, according to the old theory, too small to be stable. Once the crystals become larger, the old theory adequately describes their stability.