MIME 576. Advanced Steelmaking and Processing.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
The role of thermodynamics and mass transport phenomena in the production of liquid iron and steel in blast furnaces and basic oxygen/electric arc furnaces, followed by refining, and continuous casting of steel sheet, blooms and billets. The physical metallurgy of steels. Thermo-mechanical processing, rolling, and strengthening mechanisms. Phases, microstructures, and associated mechanical properties.
- (3-1-8)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or have taken MIME 456
- This course is given with MIME 456