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NCEES Principles and Practice of Engineering Examination

METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS Exam Specifications

Effectie !eginning "it# t#e $cto%er &'() Examinations

• The exam is an 8-hour open-book exam. It contains 40 multiple-choice questions in the 4-hour 

morning session, and 40 multiple-choice questions in the 4-hour afternoon session. Examinee 

 orks all questions.

• The exam uses both the International !"stem of #nits $!I% and the #! &ustomar" !"stem $#!&!%.

• The exam is de'eloped ith questions that require a 'ariet" of approaches and methodologies, 

including design, anal"sis, and application.

• The knoledge areas specified as examples of kinds of knoledge are not exclusi'e or exhausti'e 

categories.

• The exam includes questions independent of the t"pe of material as ell as questions related to 

specific materials. The numbers of material-specific questions are distributed as follos(

)errous *0+0

-onferrous +/

ol"mers and pol"mer composites +0

&eramics and ceramic composites +0

1ther materials +*

Approximate

N*m%er of +*estions

I. Str*ct*re (& 2. &r"stal structures of metals, ceramics, and pol"mers, including

 

imperfections or defects in solids $e.g., 'acancies, interstitials, 

substitutional atoms, dislocations, tins, stacking faults, phase boundaries%

3. iffusion

&. )ractograph" $asm metal handbook 566-55...,failure anal"sis /5-*47 *692!T: &*//-

0/9..&E;2:I&! &2;TE; *//-*/92!: <1= / //4/-//809metallograph" principles 454-

4559metallograph" and microstructure asm 'ol 5 *-*89material design and engineering

6..76../%

. :aterials chemistr"9:aterial chemistr" book, fahlmanE. :etallograph" $microstructure7macrostructure%, including microstructural

 

standards and specifications... metallograph" principles all9.metallograph" 

and microstructure asm 'ol 5 all

). hase diagrams..asm metal handbook 6/-//0 

II. Properties (, 2. &hemical anal"sis techniques $e.g., 1E!, E!%.. material chemistr" bradel" &>2TE;-6 92!:

metal handbook /*/6-/*8/92!: 'ol 0 all

3. :etallic and nonmetallic coatings

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&. >igh-temperature beha'ior $thermal stabilit", creep, and stress rupture%.. 2'ner ch-*

. =o-temperature and cr"ogenic beha'ior

E. :aterials standards and specifications

). :echanical beha'ior of composites and heterogeneous material

?. h"sical properties $e.g., densit", thermal conducti'it", &TE%

>. ;outine $e.g., hardness, tensile, impact% and speciali@ed $e.g., fatigue, 

fracture toughness, high temperature% mechanical testing

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III. Processing &- 2. Elastic7plastic deformation and bulk forming $e.g., rolling, forging, extruding%

3. &asting $e.g., sand, die, in'estment%

&. &oating applications $e.g., thermal spra"s, paints, 'apor, electroplating, 

gal'ani@ing%

. &old ork and annealing

E. iffusion treatment $e.g., carburi@ation%

). >eat transfer

?. >eat treatment and thermal treatments $e.g., flame or induction hardening%

>. AoiningBbra@ing and soldering

I. AoiningBelding

A. hase transformations and other strengthening mechanisms for metals

C. oder processing $e.g., pressing, sintering%

=. !tandards and specifications for processing

:. Toughening mechanisms for ceramics

. !trengthening mechanisms for pol"mers and reinforced pol"mers

1. Industrial safet" practices

IV. Performance &. 2. &orrosion mechanisms $e.g., cre'ice, gal'anic, pitting, :I&%

3. &orrosion7en'ironmental compatibilit" 

&. Electrochemistr" 

. En'ironmental test methods $e.g., corrosion testing, aging testing%

E. En'ironmentall" assisted cracking $e.g., h"drogen, !&&, =:E%

). )ailure anal"sis

?. )atigue anal"sis

>. )itness for ser'ice, life prediction and modeling, and life extension

I. )racture mechanics

A. >igh-temperature degradation $e.g., oxidation, creep, corrosion, microstructure

alterations, metal dusting% and temperature, radiation, and other en'ironmentalcompatibilities

C. :echanical performance

=. ondestructi'e testing $T% $e.g., radiograph", ultrasonic, penetrant%

:. erformance standards and specifications. !tatistical qualit" control methods

1. !tates of stress $e.g., tensile, compressi'e, bending, shear, biaxial, plane strain%

. Dear mechanisms $e.g., erosion, fretting, abrasi'e, adhesi'e, galling%