Modern blacksmithing and physical metallurgy

This MIT OpenCourseWare includes image galleries from the Modern blacksmithing and physical metallurgy course given as part of MIT’s Materials Science and Engineering programme in Autumn 2008.

Physical metallurgy encompasses the relationships between the composition, structure, processing history and properties of metallic materials. The seminar from which these images are taken seminar introduces metallurgy in a particularly “physical” way. The students do blacksmithing, metal casting, machining, and welding, using both traditional and modern methods. The seminar meets once per week for an evening laboratory session, and once per week for discussion of issues in materials science and engineering that tie in to the laboratory work. Students begin by completing some specified projects and progress to designing and fabricating one forged and one cast piece.

[Description and screenshot taken from MIT OCW page for this course. (c) MIT used under the terms of their CC-NC-SA license.]

Link: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/materials-science-and-engineering/3-a04-modern-blacksmithing-and-physical-metallurgy-fall-2008/index.htm
Author: Michael Tarkanian
Publication Date: 2008-12
Source: http://ocw.mit.edu/
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