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Georgia Institute of Technology

Material Behavior

Have you ever wondered why ceramics are hard and brittle while metals tend to be ductile? Why some materials conduct heat or electricity while others are insulators? Why adding just a small amount of carbon to iron results in an alloy that is so much stronger than the base metal? In this course, you will learn how a material’s properties are determined by the microstructure of the material, which is in turn determined by composition and the processing that the material has undergone. This is the first of three Coursera courses that mirror the Introduction to Materials Science class that is taken by most engineering undergrads at Georgia Tech. The aim of the course is to help students better understand the engineering materials that are used in the world around them. This first section covers the fundamentals of materials science including atomic structure and bonding, crystal structure, atomic and microscopic defects, and noncrystalline materials such as glasses, rubbers, and polymers.

Status: Chemical Engineering
Status: Materials science
Course25 hours

Featured reviews

SS

5.0Reviewed Mar 29, 2018

Material Behavior is a key subject for material studies and also very important for the mechanical engineering career. This course is very helpful and very easy to understand the hole concepts.

SC

5.0Reviewed Sep 17, 2018

This course is very much informative and I learned so many basic concepts which are related to actual behavior of different materials.

RM

5.0Reviewed Oct 8, 2018

Very Nice Course .This will be very useful for mechanical and civil engineering.It was very interesting with lot of examples for each topics.

VB

5.0Reviewed Apr 1, 2018

It is very useful for a mechanical enginnerIm sucessfully completed this course but i cant purchase the course pls help me.....

RJ

5.0Reviewed Jun 9, 2020

A beautiful learning experience for me. The course was concise and effective. Thank you Coursera and Georgia Tech. Institute for this ❤

S

5.0Reviewed Apr 23, 2024

J​ust Awesome. Greately Enjoyed with all the graphical and diagrammatical representation. Strongly recommended for matreial engineering!

MA

5.0Reviewed Jun 5, 2022

Great course content and effective knowledge related to materials.All the topics were touched related to materials and its a must have course.

SS

5.0Reviewed May 29, 2020

This was very useful for me to understand the material beviour , crystal structure of various material , material type after that got the sufficient knowledge about material beviour

NS

5.0Reviewed Apr 1, 2018

Excellent course. I am graduated in Materials Engineering and enjoy ths course. Amazing review and I have learnt ohter concepts. I recommend !

TB

4.0Reviewed Jul 11, 2020

Very interesting topics and provides a good introduction to Materials science. Equations used could be explained in more detail.

JL

5.0Reviewed Jun 16, 2016

The course was excellent. A lot of in-depth material, beyond even what I remember from college. Coverage of polymer systems in addition to the usual metals was very nice, and the

RK

5.0Reviewed Jun 3, 2017

Very useful primer of a course. It refreshes a lot of the fundamental concepts in the Materials Science. Would highly recommend it to anyone.

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