This seminar provides a concise review of the guiding metallurgy behind a range of copper alloys (particularly bronze and brass), starting with an appreciation of their properties, origins, and manufacture, but quickly moving on to their microstructures, and crucially how these link to the Copper – Tin and Copper- Zinc phase diagrams and their interpretation. The notion of non-equilibrium microstructures will then be introduced, and how these can be altered by working and heat-treatment.
Adam Wojcik is Associate Professor in Materials Science at UCL Mechanical Engineering, London. In addition to his science and engineering background, Adam also has undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in archaeology and classics.
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