Structures of Metals and Ceramics Flashcards
dense, order packing
crystalline structure
non dense random packing
noncrystalline
What type of materials usually have crystalline structures?
Metals, many ceramics, some ploymers
structure system crystals use
7 structure system
What 3 structures do metals have?
Body Centered Cubic (BCC), Face Centered Cubic (FCC), and Hexagonal Close-Packed (HCP)
APF of HCP
0.74
APF of FCC
0.74
Stacking Sequence of FCC
ABCABC
Stacking Sequence of HCP
ABABAB
APF of BCC
0.68
Atoms per cell of BCC
2 atoms/cell
Atoms per cell of FCC
4 atoms/unit cell
Atoms per cell of FCC
4 atoms/unit cell
Equal types of cations and anions, several coordination numbers
AX-type
only possible when there is significant covalent bonding
Bond Hybridization