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Production and material technologies

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 632-2024/01
Abbreviation VMT
Course title Production and material technologies
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Materials and Technologies for Vehicles
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Kateřina Skotnicová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Metallurgical technologies for the preparation of castings (gravity, centrifugal casting, squeeze casting, high-pressure casting, low-pressure casting, production of metal matrix composites (MMC) from the melt, stir casting, infiltration, etc.), principle, advantages, materials, applications.

2. Powder metallurgy (production and testing of powder materials, compaction of powder mixtures, sintering processes); hot isostatic pressing, forging.

3. Additive manufacturing technology - application in automotive (classification of additive manufacturing technologies, main steps in the additive manufacturing process, powder bed fusion methods (DMLS, SLM, EBM, MJF), principles, materials, subsequent processing, applications.

4. Metal injection molding - process stages, advantages, materials, applications.

5. Forming processes (hot and cold forming, free and die forging, extrusion, rolling of thin sheets, surface forming, forming by internal excess pressure (hydroforming), etc.).

Literature

KURSA, M. a K. SKOTNICOVÁ. Prášková metalurgie, studijní opory. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2013. ISBN 978-80-248-3378-1 .
RAMAKRISHNAN, P. Powder Metallurgy: For Automotive, Aluminium Alloys, Hard And Super Hard Materials. New Delhi: MedTech, 2013, 213 p. ISBN 9381714487 .
GIBSON, I., D. W. ROSEN, B. STUCKER a Mahyar KHORASANI. Additive manufacturing technologies. Third edition. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, [2021]. ISBN 978-3-030-56126-0.

Advised literature

YADROITSEV, Igor, Ina YADROITSAVA, Anton DU PLESSIS a Eric MACDONALD, ed. Fundamentals of laser powder bed fusion of metals. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier, [2021]. Additive manufacturing materials and technologies. ISBN 978-0-12-824090-8.
UPADHYAYA, G. S. Powder metallurgy technology. Cambridge: Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-898326-40-1.
HOSFORD, William F. a Robert M. CADDELL. Metal forming: mechanics and metallurg