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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Modern methods of heat treatment

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 636-3009/03
Abbreviation MMTZn
Course title Modern methods of heat treatment
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petra Váňová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Summary of basic heat treatment types, Phase transformations in steels. Structure modification under heating.
2. Annealing, quenching and temperature influence and cooling way on final structure. Hardenability evaluation.
3. Tempering after quenching. Physical aspect of temper brittleness.
4. Quenching and deformation aging of low carbon steels and its practical use for basic mechanical properties interpretation.
5. Deformation in recrystallization area, in suppressed recrystallization area and in two phase area. Deformation bands, deformation and annealing twins.
6. Up-to-day treatment of some steel types without necessity of next application of conventional heat treatment types.
7. Prediction of microstructure characteristics during deformation strengthened austenite transformation.
8. Dissolving annealing and precipitation hardening. Unconventional inter-critical annealing applied in bainite steels.
9. Up-to-day treatment of multiphase steels.
10. Heat treatment of various tool steels types.
11. Materials treatment by use of laser exposition.
12. Material treatment by use of plasma exposition and of electric heating.
13. ADI treatment.
14. Selected treatment types of some nonferrous metals.

Literature

MAZANCOVÁ, E. Modern Methods of Heat Treatment. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2013. Available from: https://www.fmmi.vsb.cz/cs/studenti/study-support/advanced-engineering-materials/index.html

GU, D.D., W. MEINERS, K. WISSENBACH and R. POPRAWE. Laser Aditive Manufacturing of Metallic Components, Materials, Processes and Mechanisms. Internat. Materials Reviews. 2011, 56(5/6), 341-388. ISSN 0950-6608 .

MAZANCOVÁ, E. and K. Mazanec. Physical Metallurgy of Thermo-Mechanical Treatment of Structural Steels. Cambridge: Cambridge Int. Sci. Publishing, 1997. ISBN 1898326436.

Advised literature

MAZANCOVÁ, E. and K. Mazanec. Three Stage Heat Treatment and its Physical Metalurgy. In: Olabi, A.G. and S.J. Hashmi, ed. Advances in Materials and Technologies: 8.7.-11.7. 2003, DCU. Dublin: Dublin City University, 2003, p. 33-36. ISBN 1-882527-397 .

ROBERTS, G., G. KRAUS and R. KENNEDY. Tool Steels. Materials Park, OH: ASM International, 1998. ISBN 0-8717-599-0.

TOTTEN, G.E. Steel Heat Treatment. Metallurgy and Technologies. Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis Group, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8493-8455-4.

2. CALLISTER, W.D. Materials Science and Engineering. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014. ISBN 13 (EAN) 9781118319222.