Interactive Simulations In The Teaching Of Metallurgy

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Interactive Simulations In The Teaching Of
Metallurgy

• Peter Goodhew, Andrew Green and David Naylor
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• University of Liverpool
• MATTER
• International Iron Steel Institute
• European Aluminium Association

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Why teach metallurgy?

• Metallurgy is unfashionable but still very
  important
• Society uses a lot of steel, aluminium, copper
  and other metals
• It is an excellent meso-scale enabling activity
  between science and engineering

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Interactive simulations

• can help student understanding
• have been written for aspects of steelmaking (see
  oral presentation by Ruth Hambleton)
• and aluminium, demonstrated here.

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Simulation of yielding
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Machine turning of Al
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An example
Alumatter
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Why bother with simulations?

• Enable inaccessible experiments
• Permit repeat experiments
• Enable learning by doing
• Encourage exploration of variables
• Can be competitive
• Collaboration with industry can be rewarding

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For more information

• www.matter.org.uk
• www.steeluniversity.org
• www.alumatter.info