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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Degradation Processes of Structural Materials

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 636-0924/03
Abbreviation DPKM
Course title Degradation Processes of Structural Materials
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Bohumír Strnadel, DrSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction – basic relations between structure and mechanical properties
2. Changes of structural materials induced by degradation process
3. Basic groups of materials and their degradation processes
4. Fracture by overloading during uniaxial and multiaxial stress
5. Terms of low-energy brittle fracture
6. Conditions of high-energy ductile fracture
7. Mechanisms of initiation and spread of fatigue violation
8. Fatigue damage of components exposed to multiaxial stress
9. Mechanisms of creep damage initiation
10. Fracture during the creep and factors that influence it
11. Mechanisms of stress corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement
12. The basic mechanisms of wear on surfaces
13. Combined effects of some degradation processes
14. Consequences effects of degradation processes in the reliability of components

Literature

T.L. ANDERSON: Fracture Mechanics, Fundamentals and Applications, CRC Press, NY 1995, 688 s.
F. ELLYIN: Fatigue Damage, crack growth and life predicttion, Champan and Hall, London 1997, 469s.

Advised literature

J. ČADEK: Creep in metallic materials, Academia Praha 1988, 376 s.