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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Physical Metallurgy

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 636-0912/03
Abbreviation FM
Course title Physical Metallurgy
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petra Váňová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

-The essence of physical metalurgy as a base materials engineering;
-Basic physic-metallurgical criteria of materials failure;
-Methods of assessment of degradation processes of technical materials;
-Fractographic characteristics of ductile, brittle, fatigue, creep rupture;
-Micromechanisms of each types of degradation;
-Strengthening mechanisms of metallic materials.

Literature

ABBASCHIAN, R., L. ABBASCHIAN and R. E. REED-HILL. Physical metallurgy principles. 4. vyd. Stamford: Cengage Learning, 2009. ISBN 978-0-495-08254-5.
HUMPHREYS, F. J. and M. HATHERLY. Recrystallization and related phenomena. 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier, 2004. ISBN 0-08-044164-5.
SMALLMAN, R. E and A. H. W. NGAN. Physical metallurgy and advanced materials. 7th ed. Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7506-6906-1.
D. E. LAUGHLIN a K. HONO. Physical Metallurgy. 5th. ed. Oxford: Elsevier, 2014. ISBN 978-0-444-59598-0 .
HOSFORD, W. F. Physical metallurgy. 2nd ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4398-1360-7.

Advised literature

TISZA, M. Physical metallurgy for engineers. Materials Park: ASM International, 2001. ISBN 0-87170-725-X.
LEJČEK, P. Grain boundary segregation in metals. Berlin: Springer, 2010. ISBN 978-3-642-12504-1.