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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Forming and foundry of non-ferrous metals

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 633-3011/01
Abbreviation TSNK
Course title Forming and foundry of non-ferrous metals
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Materials Forming
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Radim Kocich, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Formed products and their practical utilization, processing technologies: foundry, powder metallurgy, welding.
2. Suppositions for plastic deformation development, state of stress and stress intensity, theoretical relations.
3. Plastic deformation in hot and cold conditions (basic laws, deformation non-homogeneity, friction influence…), restoration, recrystallisation, grain growth.
4. Description of conventional forming methods and their basic characteristics (theoretical basis for necessary parameters computation, industry equipments…).
5. Other forming methods (extrusion, drawing, profiling…), non-conventional forming methods.
6. Non-ferrous metals and their alloys forming (aluminum, magnesium copper, nickel, titanium, high-melting metals).
7. Other modifications and heat treatment of non-ferrous metals and their alloys products.
8. Brief overview of production of castings from non-ferrous metal alloys. Overview of the used manufacturing technologies for casting of non-ferrous metals and alloys. Casting in metal, ceramic, and rubber moulds.
9. Physical and chemical processes during melting of non-ferrous metals. Checking of the melt and monitoring of important process parameters (melt temperature measurement, thermal analysis).
10. Division of aluminium alloys, structure, properties and the use. Inoculation and modification of Al alloys. Structure, foundry and mechanical properties. Filtration of the melt of aluminium alloys.
11. Division of copper alloys, structure, properties and the use. The influence of alloying, accompanying, and adverse elements on structure, foundry and mechanical properties. Oxidation and reduction run of melts. Physical and chemical processes, specificities and melting processes. The use of castings in industrial applications.
12. Manufacture of castings from magnesium based alloys. Division of magnesium alloys, structure, properties, and the use of individual types. Manufacturing technology of castings from titanium alloys. Basic definition of alloys, structure, properties and the use. Protection of the melt and specificities of moulds manufacture.
13. Tin, lead, zinc, and their alloys – structure, properties, and the use of these materials for castings. Influencing of chemical composition, influence on technological, mechanical, and structural properties.
14. Definition, causes, and elimination of defects formation. Analysis of basic defects. Determination of the gas content, methods of its reduction and removing.

Literature

TOTTEN, G.E. and D.S. MACKENZIE. Handbook of aluminum. Volume 2, Alloy production and materials manufacturing. CRC/Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, 2003. ISBN 0-8247-0896-2.

Advised literature

NPCS Board of Consultants & Engineers. The Complete Technology Book on Aluminium and Aluminium Products. Asia Pacific Business Press Inc., 2007. ISBN 8178330156 

FRIEDRICH, H. E. and B.L. MORDIKE. Magnesium technology: metallurgy, design data, applications. Springer, Berlin, 2006. ISBN 3-540-20599-3