Materials Science I

- Explain the principal concepts of thermodynamics and their importance in materials study;
- Outline the internal structure of structural materials on different scale ranges;
- Describe the basic properties of structural materials and methods how to evaluate them;
- Clarify relationships between internal structure and properties of structural materials;
- Outline basic processes – solidification and solid phase transformations – in one-component systems;
- Differentiate the behaviour of two- component systems and describe eutectic, eutectoid, peritectic and peritectoid reactions;
- Analyse more complicated binary systems;
- Outline behaviour of iron – carbon system and deduce properties of typical alloys.