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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Physical Metallurgy

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 636-0801/01
Abbreviation FM
Course title Physical Metallurgy
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Dr. Ing. Jaroslav Sojka

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. – 4. Diffusion in metallic systems – diffusion mechanisms, derivation of the 1. and 2. Fick´s law, interstitial diffusion, theory of random walk and mean quadratic replacement, substitutional diffusion – self-diffusion; impurity diffusion, inter-diffusion, diffusion in ternary systems, accelerated diffusion by imperfections of crystal structure;
5. – 6. Mechanisms of metallic materials strengthening – plastic deformation strengthening, grain boundary strengthening, solid solution strengthening, precipitation strengthening, strengthening by phase transformation;
7. - 8. Segregations in metallic materials – macro-segregations, micro-segregations grain boundary segregations including concurrence segregations etc.;
9. – 10. Restoration processes in metallic materials – recovery, primary recrystallisation, grain coarsening, secondary and tertiary recrystallisation;
11. – 13. Application and modelling of physical metallurgy principles in specific metallic systems (micro-alloyed steels, low-alloyed steels, corrosion resistant steels, Ni-Al alloys, Cu-alloys, Al-alloys).

Literature

Abbaschian, R., Abbaschian, L., Reed-Hill, R. E.: Physical Metallurgy principles. CENGAGE Learning, 2009.

Advised literature

1. Smallman, R.E., Ngan, A.H.W.:Physical Metallurgy of Advanced Materials. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.
2. Lejček, P.: Grain Boundary Segregation in Metals, Springer, 2010.
3. Porter D. A., Easterling K.E., Sherif, M. Y.: Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys. CRC Press, 2009.