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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Special Materials

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 636-0820/01
Abbreviation SM
Course title Special Materials
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Zdeněk Jonšta, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:

- Introduction - A general overview of special materials and examples of their practical application.
- Rapid solidification, physical and metallurgical characteristics.
- Amorphous alloys, technologies of preparation, mechanical, corrosion and magnetic properties. Devitrification.
- Nanocrystalline materials, basic evaluation of physical and chemical characteristics, basic structural characteristics.
-Preparation technique of nanocrystalline materials, mechanical properties, multi-functional materials.
- Intermetallics, microstructural characteristics, physical and mechanical properties of technologically important types of intermetallics.
- Technical and technological aspects of mechanical alloying, basic technological process parameters, physical and metallurgical characteristics, strengthened alloys by oxide dispersion.
- Magnetic materials, physical nature, hard and soft magnets.
- Superconductors, physical parameters of production technology and the use of superconductors. Low-and high-temperature superconducting materials. Degradation.
- Superplastic materials, types of superplasticity and its physical and metallurgical characteristics, microstructure.
- Polymeric materials, visco-elastic properties-models. Physical properties of real polymers. Electrical properties.
- Fillers and their effects on mechanical properties of polymers.
- Fatigue processes and antidegradation for polymers.

Exercise:

- Introduction - familiarization with filling the exercises, conditions of granting credits, designate the semestral assignment topics.
- Overview of the special materials and examples of their application.
- Devitrification of amorphous alloys. Program Number 1
- Nanocrystalline materials. Structural phase analysis of friction materials for automobile brake systems. Program Number 2
- Materials produced by powder metallurgy. Evaluation of the grain size of the powders.
- Intermetallics. Structural phase analysis of intermetallics.
- Magnetic materials. Structural phase analysis of transformer plates.
- Polymeric materials. Determination of coefficient of thermal expansion of polymeric materials. Program Number 3
- Determination of Young modulus and Poisson's number by ESPI method.
- Excursion.
- Presentation of semestral assignment.
- Credits count.

E-learning

E-learning Technické materiály II

Literature

[1] Askeland, D. R., Phulé, P., P.: The Science and Engineering of Materials. 5th ed.Canada: Thompson-Brooks/Cool, 2005, 863 s.
[2] Donachie, M., J., Donachie, S., J.:Superalloys : a technical guide, 2.vyd. USA, 2002, 439 s.
[3] ASM INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK COMMITTEE. ASM Handbook Volume 21: Composites. ASM International, 2001.

Advised literature

[1] Badeshia,H.,K.,D.,H.:Nickel Based Superalloys.Materials Science &Metallurgy, University of Cambridge [online], 2003 [cit.2009-03-31]. z:<http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/phasetrans/2003/Superalloys/superalloys.html >
[2] Vasiliev, V., V. & Morozov, E., V.,: Mechanics and Analysis of Composite materials, Oxford: Elsevier, 2007.
[3] Military Specification MIL-A-12560H (MR),Amendment 3. „Armor Plate, Steel, Wrought, Homogeneous (For Use Combat-Vehikles and for Ammunition Testing)“, September, 2000.