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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Selected Heat Treatment Chapters

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 636-0806/01
Abbreviation VKTZ
Course title Selected Heat Treatment Chapters
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Eva Mazancová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures

- Summary of the basic heat treatment (HT) types. Phase transformations in steels. Microstructure modification during heating.

- Influence of starting structure on the final properties. Influence of austenite deformation on the final microstructure. Infuence of grain size and chemical composition.

- Various annealling types of steels, including recrystallisation annealling and annealing for strain elimination.

- Intercritical annealling.

- Temper deformation aging of low carbon steels

- Quenching, influence of temperature and the way of cooling.

- Hardening capacity evaluation. Tempering. Physical principles of low-temperature and high-temperature temper brittleness.

- Dissolvent annealling and precipitation age hardening.

- Unconventional types of the HT-1.

- Unconventional types of the HT-2.

- The HT of various tool steels types.

- Surface treatment of materials (laser, plasma, electro-heating).

- Aging of aluminium steels. The HT of Ti, Cu, Al, Mg, Ni etc.alloys.

Seminar

- Opening seminar - content of lectures, literature, working security.

- The IRA and ARA diagrams, using - chemical constitution influence.

- Evaluation of hardening capacity level - Jominy´s test.

- Upper and low bainite, granular bainite.

- Intercritical annealling.

- Secondary hardening - technical importance of additions.

- Ferrite microstructure types (ATF, IDF, WF, AF, bainite) and conditions of their formation.

- The HT in sequence of hydrogen brittleness development.

- Examples of technology of the constructional steel HT and materials for power engineering.

- The HT of austenite steels, Hadfield´s steel.

- Test.

- Ni, Cu alloys - microstructures.

- Microstructure of Al, Mg and Ti alloys.

- Short test, seminar evaluation and credit.

Literature

[1] Briant, C.L., Banerji, S.K.: Treatise on materials science and technology, vol. 25, 1983, 623 p.
[2] Mazancová, E., Mazanec, K.: Physical metallurgy of thermomechanical
treatmentof structural steels. Cambridge Int. Sci. publ., 1997

Advised literature

[1] Proceeding of the 2nd Internat. conf. on "Super-high strength steels.
Associzione Italiana di Metallurgi, October 2010, Verona
[2] Mazancová, E., Schindler, I., Rucká, Z.: Mechanical properties of the C-
Mn Steel Cooled by various Rates from the Finishing rolling temperature. Metallurgical Journal, 63, 2010, 4, pp. 78-81
[3] Mazancová, E., Mazanec, K.: Physical metallurgy characteristics of the
M/A constituent formation in branular bainite. Jn. of Materials Processing
Technol., 64, 1997, pp. 287-292.