NIQR Student Chapter-Rajalakshmi Engineering College
Lecture on Automotive Materials
Department of Automobile Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Thandalam organised a guest lecture for the Automobile Engineering Students on 31st January 2015. The topic was `Automotive Materials` and Dr. P. Ramesh Co-opted member of NIQR HQ was the guest lecturer. About 70 students of IV & V Semester Automobile Engineering and faculty attended the program.
Dr. K. Bhaskar, Professor & Head, Automobile Engineering introduced the speaker to the audience. Dr. P. Ramesh gave an overview of materials used in auto industry covering various topics:
Materials used in automotive application: metals, plastics, rubbers, etc.
Recent trends in automotive materials
Light weight concepts and materials – Mg Castings, High performance engineering plastics, Carbon fibre reinforced plastics to replace steels
Composites for automotive application
New generation materials such as Micro alloyed steels, Carbon fibres, Graphenes, Conductive plastics, bio plastics, TPE`s, Flame retardant Polymers etc
Hazardous in automotive materials and regulations & directives
powder metallurgy
heat treatment processes
The students were very interactive and the Q & A session prolonged for 20 minutes. Dr. K. Bhaskar proposed a vote of thanks and wanted frequent programs from NIQR