1-Crystal structure, imprefections, voids and stacking
sequence.
2-Plastic deformation and annealing, recovery, recrestalyzation
and grain growth.
3- Solid solution and the humepothery rules .
4- Binary phase diagrams, miscibility gap, eutectic, eutectoid, and peritectic phase diagrams.
5- The Fe-C systems, structure of steels, cost iron, heat
treatments, martenstic, perleatic and baintic transformation, and grading and
classification of steels.
6-Solidification of metals, thermodynamics, kinetics and
casting defects.