MEM48004 — Interpret basic binary phase diagrams

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23 assessable components: 4 elements (13 performance criteria), 5 performance evidence and 5 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Determine job requirements

1.1Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
1.2Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
1.3Identify job requirements from work information

2 Identify the microstructures from an equilibrium cooling phase diagram

2.1Obtain phase diagram for metal or alloy from internal or external sources
2.2Identify number, composition, proportion and structural arrangement of phases in binary alloys
2.3Identify structural changes due to varying proportion of alloying elements and temperature
2.4Identify the phase changes and final microstructures of binary alloys cooled under equilibrium conditions from the melt or during heat treatment operations

3 Identify the microstructures from a non-equilibrium cooling phase diagram

3.1Identify number, composition, proportion and structural arrangement of phases in binary alloys
3.2Identify structural changes due to varying proportion of alloying elements and temperature
3.3Identify the phase changes and final microstructures of binary alloys cooled under equilibrium conditions from the melt or during heat treatment operations

4 Recognise characteristic microstructures of binary alloys

4.1Recognise characteristic structures of dendrites (homogeneous and cored) columnar and equiaxed grains
4.2Recognise characteristic structures resulting from eutectic, eutectoid and peritectic reactions
4.3Recognise characteristic structures resulting from solid state precipitation

Performance evidence

following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and safe work practices
identifying and interpreting the microstructures from an equilibrium and non-equilibrium cooling phase diagrams criteria on at least two occasions
producing a basic cooling phase diagram from supplied data criteria on at least two occasions
estimating composition from the structure of a phase diagram
predicting structure from the composition from a phase diagram

Knowledge evidence

safe work practices and procedures
scientific techniques and principles of cooling phase diagrams
methods of construction of phase diagrams for binary alloys
phase changes that occur in binary alloy systems as recorded by the appropriate phase diagrams
equilibrium and non-equilibrium cooling of binary alloys and the resulting microstructures in cast and heat-treated material

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