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New Course for Master students on Sustainable Materials Science and Green Metallurgy
at the Max-Planck Institut Düsseldorf and at RWTH Aachen, starting 2021
(Summer Semester)
OLDER CLASS NOTES ON MICROMECHANICS
Title of Course
Sustainable Materials Science and Green Metallurgy (V3, Ü1) (English)
Brief Introduction ot the topic on youtube:
Sustainable Metallurgy and Green Metals - A Green Metallurgy Introduction
Brief Introduction ot the topic in a publication:
Nature: Strategies for improving the sustainability of structural metals
Lecturer: D. Raabe
Start / first class in semester
Friday April 2021
Class room
seminar room, 1st floor,
OR
MET P11
Institut für Metallkunde und Metallphysik (IMM),
RWTH Aachen, Kopernikusstrasse 14
Contents
This is an introductory class about sustainable metals and metallurgy, a field that is also referred to as green metallurgy.
Engineering materials and particularly metallic alloys have enabled technological progress over millenia.
Metallic materials have a historic and enduring importance in our society. They have paved the path of human civilization with load-bearing applications that can be used under the harshest
environmental conditions, from the Bronze Age onwards. Only metallic materials encompass such diverse features as strength, hardness, workability, damage tolerance, joinability, ductility and
toughness, often combined with functional properties such as corrosion resistance, thermal and electric conductivity and magnetism.
The high and accelerating demand for load-bearing (structural) and functional metallic alloys in key sectors such as energy, construction, safety and transportation is resulting in predicted
production growth rates of up to 200 per cent until 2050. Yet most of these metallic materials, specifically steel, aluminium, nickel and titanium, require a lot of energy when extracted and
manufactured and these processes emit large amounts of greenhouse gases and pollution.
The huge success of metallic products and industries also means that they has an important role in addressing the current environmental crisis.
The availability of metals (most of the elements used in structural alloys are among the most abundant), efficient mass producibility, low price and amenability to large-scale industrial production
(from extraction to the metal alloy) and manufacturing (downstream operations after solidification) have become a substantial environmental burden: worldwide production of metals leads to a total
energy consumption of about 53 exajoules (10^18 J) (8% of the global energy used) and almost 30% of industrial CO2-equivalent emissions (4.4 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent, Gt CO2eq) when
counting only steels and aluminium alloys (the largest fraction of metal use by volume)
This lecture gives an introductory overview of methods for improving the direct sustainability of structural metals, in areas including reduced-carbon-dioxide primary production, recycling,
scrap-compatible alloy design, contaminant tolerance of alloys and improved alloy longevity, for instance throgh better corrosion resistance. The lecture also discusses the effectiveness and
technological readiness of individual measures and also show how novel structural materials enable improved energy efficiency through their reduced mass, higher thermal stability and better
mechanical properties than currently available alloys.
Class Notes Micromechanics 2019
Raabe_MicroMech-intro-2019.pdf
PDF-Dokument [7.8 MB]
Class Notes Micromechanics 2017
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Class Notes Micromechanics 2016
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Class Notes Micromechanics 2015
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