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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Metallic materials I – steels and cast irons

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 636-2007/01
Abbreviation KMIn
Course title Metallic materials I – steels and cast irons
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Eva Mazancová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Secondary hardness, four stages of martensite tempering, plane faults, deformation bands etc.
2. Role of alloying elements in steels and basis types of alloyed steels. Influence evaluation of harmful impurities
3. Physical metallurgical centre of the basic austenite transformation products (F, B and M).
4. Physical metallurgical centre of other austenite transformation products (ATF, IMF, WF and AF).
5. Principles of granular bainite formation.
6. Structural principles of optimised choise of formed steels including their mechanical properties evaluation.
7. Resistance evaluation against corrosion damage due to hydrogen (SSC, HIC SOHIC). Physical principles of additions effects in steels.
8. Basic information about spring steel types, about steels for surface treatment, anti-abrasion steels and steels for low temperatures.
9. General knowledge about selected materials for automotive industry (DP, RTIP, TWIP, TRIPLEX etc.).
10. General information about anticorrosion steel types. Heat- and fire resistant steels and basic conditions of their practical application.
11. Selected steel types with special physical properties.
12. Steels for electro-technic and steels showing specific magnetic properties.
13. Tool and high-speed steels dividing. Tool steels for work under hot and/or cold.
14. Basic cast steel types. Cast-iron dividing, conditions of graphite formation in cast-irons. Nodular cast iron.

Literature

[1] Bhadeshia, H.K.D.H. Bainite in Steels – Transformations, Microstructure and Properties, Inst. of Materials, London, 1992, 451 s.

Advised literature

[1] Malcon, B., Stevens, T.L., Linskey, B. Steel Casting Handbook, 6th Ed., Steel Foundrers´ Society of America and ASTM Internat., Materials Park, OH, 1995
[2] Campbell, J. Compete casting handbook. London: Elsevier, 2011. ISBN 1856178099 .