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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Fundamentals of Heat Treatment

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 636-0421/01
Abbreviation ZTZ
Course title Fundamentals of Heat Treatment
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Dr. Ing. Jaroslav Sojka

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
Fundamentals and purposes of heat treatments of metallic materials; solid phase transformations and their mechanisms.
Heat treatments of steels; phase transformations in steels; TTT diagrams, IT diagrams.
Classification of steel annealing; stress relief annealing, recrystallisation annealing, spheroidising annealing; thermal cycles of annealings, final structure and properties.
Normalising; homogenising annealing; thermal cycles of annealings, final structure and properties.
Steel quenching; quenching media; hardenability and its testing; methods of cooling.
Tempering of steels – tempering stages, impact on the steel properties; internal stresses during heat treatment.
Thermo-chemical heat treatments; basic principles; case hardening – principal reactions, technologies, quenching and tempering after carburising, resulting properties.
Nitriding and carbonitriding; principles, technologies, resulting properties.
Heat treatment of the special steels – corrosion resistant steels, tool steels.
Heat treatments of the cast irons; classification of the cast irons; heat treatment of grey and nodular cast irons; malleablising of the cast irons.
Heat treatment of some non ferrous metals (aluminium, copper and their alloys); principle and stages of precipitation hardening; ageing.
Summary; importance of the heat treatment of metallic materials.

Literature

[1] Kraus, G: Steels: Heat Treatment and Processing Principles, ASM Int.,1990.
[2] Thelning, K. E.:Steels and its heat treatment, Butterworths, 1984, 678s.

Advised literature

[1] Porter, D. A., Easterling, K. E., Sherif, M. Y.: Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys, 3rd edition, CRC Press, USA, 2009, 500s.