TYPES OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS

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What is materials engineering?
Materials scientists and engineers continue to be at the forefront of all of these and many
other areas of science, too. Materials science and engineering influences our lives each time we buy
or use a new device, machine, or structure.
The definition of the academic field of Materials Science & Engineering originate from a
realization concerning every application of materials: properties of the material that give it value. A
material may be chosen for its strength, its electrical properties, resistance to heat or corrosion, and
other important considerations.

Metals
Metals are comparatively malleable, optically reflective, and electrically conductive. Most
metals and alloys are easily shaped by forming. Their disassociate electron bonding makes them
excellent conductors of electricity and heat. Almost all metals have an orderly arrangement of
atoms, resulting in a crystalline structure that may have multiple crystal phases bordering each
other.

Kinds of metals
o Ferrous Metal
o Non Ferrous Metal

Ferrous metals include mild steel, carbon steel, stainless steel, cast iron, and wrought iron. These
metals are primarily used for their tensile strength and durability, especially mild steel which helps
 hold up the tallest skyscrapers and the longest bridges in the world. You can also find ferrous metals
in housing construction, industrial containers, large-scale piping, automobiles, rails for railroad and
transportation, most of tools and hardware you use around the house, and the knives you cook with
at home.
Examples: Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel

Non-ferrous metals include aluminum, brass, copper, nickel, tin, lead, and zinc, as well as
precious metals like gold and silver. While non-ferrous metals can provide strength, they are
primarily used where their differences from ferrous metals can provide an advantage

Non -metal
 o Polymer (Organic Materials)
o Ceramic Materials

Polymers are long chain macromolecules built from repeated smaller chemical structures or
'-mers.' They are found widely in the natural world (e.g. proteins, rubber, cellulose) and,
increasingly the past century, in synthetic form (e.g. "plastics"). Polymers have been central
to many technological innovations that shape the modern world, such as film that enabled
the cinema, or the progression of vinyl LPs to polycarbonate CDs and DVDs that enabled
recorded music and video distribution.
There are two types of polymers:
synthetic and;
natural.

Synthetic polymers are derived from petroleum oil, and made by scientists and engineers.
Examples of synthetic polymers include nylon, polyethylene, polyester, Teflon, and epoxy.
Natural polymers occur in nature and can be extracted. They are often water-based. Examples
of naturally occurring polymers are silk, wool, DNA, cellulose and proteins.

Ceramic- ceramic is an inorganic, non-metallic, solid material comprising metal, non-

metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds. This category of materials includes
things like tile, bricks, plates, glass, and toilets. Ceramics can be found in products like watches (quartz
tuning forks-the time keeping devices in watches), snow skies (piezoelectric-ceramics that stress when
a voltage is applied to them), automobiles (sparkplugs and ceramic engine parts found in racecars), and
phone lines. They can also be found on space shuttles, appliances (enamel coatings), and airplanes
(nose cones). Depending on their method of formation, ceramics can be dense or
lightweight. Typically, they will demonstrate excellent strength and hardness properties; however, they
are often brittle in nature