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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Materials Science

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 636-0701/04
Abbreviation NoM
Course title Materials Science
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Stanislav Lasek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:

- Content and aim of learning.
- Fundamentals of crystallography. Defects of the crystal lattice. The influence of external forces on
crystal structure of metals: elastic and plastic deformation.
- Testing of mechanical properties of metals: tensile test, tests in
pressure, bending, shear and torsion.
- Static mechanical tests at elevated temperatures: testing of creep and
relaxation.
- Impact test (Charpy), fracture toughness, fatigue testing, hardness measurements.
- Technological tests. Non-destructive testing of metals. Microscopy.
- Fundamentals of thermodynamics, equilibrium phase diagrams of binary systems.
Crystallization of metals and alloys.
- Thermally activated processes: diffusion mechanisms in solids,
recrystallization, fracture behavior of metallic materials.
- Phase transformations in the solid state. Principles of heat treatment of metals and alloys.
- Equilibrium diagram of Fe-C. Classification of alloys based on iron. Alloying and
accompanying elements in steels.
- Wrought structural and tool steels.
- Technology of heat treatment of steels. Transformation diagrams overcooled
austenite (ARA, IRA). Chemical heat treatment of steels.
- Steel for castings. Iron. Heat treatment of cast irons.
- Technically, an important non-ferrous metals and their alloys.
- Polymer materials. Structural ceramics. Metallic glass. Composite materials.


Exercise:

1st Introduction to training, work safety in laboratories, literature.
2nd Fundamentals of crystallography, Program No. 1
3rd Hooke's law, determination of conventional yield strength Rp0,2: Program No. 2
4th Tensile test and impact test: the No. 2
5th Vtiskové hardness tests and selected technological tests.
6th Practical metallography: preparation of thin sections, visibility structures.
7th Test 1. Description of the binary diagrams.
8th - 9 Complicated binary diagrams, program No. 3
10th Test 2. The system iron - carbon.
11 to 12 Exercise diagram Fe-C calculations, equilibrium microstructure;
Program No. 4
13th Hardenability of steel.
14th 3rd Test. Credits.

Literature

1. Calister, W.D.Jr.: Materials Science and Engineering and Introduction, 2006

Advised literature

1. Askeland, D.R., Phulé, P.P.: The science and Engineering of Materials.