Traditional Metallurgy

Traditional fields include metal manufacturing, failure analysis, heat treatment, mineral processing, and metal joining (including welding, brazing, and soldering). Nanotechnology, superconductors, composite materials, biological materials, electronic materials (semiconductors), and surface engineering are some of the metallurgists' emerging fields of study. The field of materials science and engineering known as metallurgy investigates the physical and chemical properties of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and the mixes they form, known as alloys. In other words, the engineering of metal components utilised in goods for both customers and producers, as well as the method in which science is applied to the manufacturing of metals, are all included in the field of metallurgy. Metalworking is a skill, but metallurgy is a science. Similar to how medicine depends on medical science for technical progress, metalworking depends on metallurgy. A metallurgist is a specialist in the practise of metalworking. Chemical metallurgy and physical metallurgy are two further divisions of the study of metallurgy. The reduction, oxidation, and chemical behaviour of metals are the main topics of study in chemical metallurgy. Mineral processing, metal extraction, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, and chemical degradation are among the topics studied in chemical metallurgy (corrosion). Physical metallurgy, on the other hand, is concerned with the mechanical, physical, and performance characteristics of metals. Crystallography, material characterisation, mechanical metallurgy, phase transitions, and failure mechanisms are among the subjects covered in physical metallurgy.