Degradation Processes of Structural Materials

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