Degradation processes and lifetime prediction of structural materials

Introduction – principal relationships between structure and mechanical characteristics.
Changes in behaviors of materials caused by degradation processes.
The basic group of materials and degradation processes.
Fracture caused by overloading under uniaxial and multiaxial stress.
Conditions of low energy brittle fracture.
Conditions of high energy ductile fracture.
Mechanisms of initiation and propagation of fatigue damage.
Fatigue damage of structural parts under multiaxial stress-states.
Mechanisms of creep damage.
Creep fracture and parameters affecting it.
Mechanisms of stress corrosion fracture and hydrogen embrittlement.
Basic mechanisms of wear in functional surfaces.
Combinational effects of degradation processes.
Impacts of degradation processes on reliability of structural parts.