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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Damage Processes of Materials

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 636-3004/04
Abbreviation DPMn
Course title Damage Processes of Materials
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Bohumír Strnadel, DrSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Introductory lecture
2. Changes of structural materials induced degradation process
3. Basic groups of materials and their degradation processes
4. Refraction of congestion during uniaxial and multiaxial stress
5. Terms of brittle fracture of low-energy
6. Conditions of high-energy ductile fracture
7. Mechanisms of initiation and spread of fatigue violation
8. Fatigue damage components when 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 surfaces
13. Combined effects of some degradation processes
14. Consequences effects of degradation processes in the reliability of components

Exercise:
1. Introductory training, requirements, a summary study of literature,
summary of the basic knowledge of physics of metals, continuum mechanics and physics metallurgy required for mastering the subject.
2. Classification of the effects of degradation processes, a general assessment of reduction expected life of components when exposed to degradation processes, examples of reliability evaluation of components.
3. Comparison of the effects of exposure degradation processes in different
groups construction materials in terms of loss of basic functions and material reduction of reliability in practical examples.
4. Worked examples of the limit state quarry material breach Overload in uniaxial and multiaxial stress.
5. Calculations transit temperatures and lower limits of temperature
dependence of fracture toughness for the quantification of safety components against the formation of low-energy fracture.
6. Calculations of strength of structural materials at elevated temperatures and optimization of microstructural parameters.
7. Solution of basic technical tasks during the life of components
time-varying loads and estimates of residual life.
8. Calculations of the components loaded multi-axis time variable stress-
deformation field.
9. Solving basic technical problems of safety and durability of steel structures exposed at elevated temperatures.
10. Solving some problems of functional wear surfaces, particularly adhesion, for selected timing mechanisms volumetric wear. Optimization of pressure
strength and relative speed of functional surfaces.
11. Calculations of heavy-duty components or two or more degradation
processes at the same time, the combined effects of elevated temperature
exposure and cyclic stress on the safety components.
12. Solving some technical problems of reliability of structural materials when exposed to degradation processes associated with optimizing microstructure parameters.
13. Test.
14. Checking test results, credit.

Literature

STRNADEL, B. Degrading processes of materials. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2015.
KASSNER, M. E.: Fundamentals of Creep in Metals and Alloys, Elsevier Science, 2nd edition, 2012, 295p.
LEE, Y. L., PAN, J., HATHAWAY, R., BARKEY, M.: Fatigue Testing and Analysis, Butterworth-Heinemann, 3rd edition, 2014, 416p.
LAMON, J.: Brittle Fracture and Damage of Brittle Materials and Composites, ISTE Press – Elsevier, 2016, 296p.
SUN, C.T., JIN, Z.: Fracture Mechanics, Academic Press, 1st edition, 2017, 296p.

Advised literature

ANDERSON, T.L. Fracture Mechanics, Fundamentals and Applications, 4th ed. New York: CRC Press, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-1-4987-2813-3 .