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Materials for special application

Summary

Materials with nano-crystalline structure. Basic physical-chemical and structural properties. Technique of preparation of nano-crystalline materials. Mechanical properties of nano-crystalline materials. Thermal stability of nano-crystalline structures. Perspectives for technical use.
- Amorphous metals. Basic characteristics of rapid cooling. Technological variants of preparation of amorphous metals.
Characteristics of amorphous metals, conditions of creation of amorphous conditions. Mechanical properties, magnetic properties, corrosion properties. Devitrification of amorphous metals. Perspectives of use.
- Selected refractory alloys in the equipment for conversion of power. General character of nickel and cobalt alloys. History of development. Classification from the viewpoint of development of technologies. Chemical constitution of nickel and cobalt alloys. Influence of individual alloying elements. Strength properties, strengthening phases, TPC phases. Perspectives of use, current directions of development.
- Materials for armouring of military vehicles. Overview of the current state of the art in the world. Basic principles of protection. Passive armouring, reactive armouring, active armouring. Armour protection of vehicles. Metallic armours, steel armours, armours made of aluminium and titanium based alloys. Non-metallic armours, aramid, polyethylene, glass fibres and laminates, ceramic armours. Transparent armours.
- Laminates, character and requirements, production technology - polymeric matrix – unsaturated polyesters, vinyl-ester bitumens, epoxide bitumens. Properties, basic types.

Literature

ASKELAND, D. R., P.P. PHULÉ. The Science and Engineering of Materials. 5th ed.Canada: Thompson-Brooks/Cool, 2005. ISBN-13: 978-0-534-55396-8.

DONACHIE, M.J., S.J. DONACHIE. Superalloys: a technical guide, 2nd ed., Materials Park, Ohio, USA: ASM International, 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0-87170-749-9.

ASM INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK COMMITTEE. ASM Handbook Volume 21: Composites. Materials Park, Ohio, USA: ASM International, 2001. ISBN 978-0-87170-703-1.

Advised literature

VASILIEV, V. V. and E.V. MOROZOV. Mechanics and Analysis of Composite Materials. Oxford: Elsevier, 2007. ISBN 0-08-042702-2 .

MILITARY SPECIFICATION MIL-A-12560H (MR), Amendment 3. „Armor Plate, Steel, Wrought, Homogeneous (For Use Combat-Vehikles and for Ammunition Testing)“, September, 2000.

ASM SPECIALLY HANDBOOK. Nickel, Cobalt, and Their Alloys. 2nd.ed., Metals Park, Ohio, USA: ASM International, ed. J.R. Davis, 2001. ISBN 978-0-87170-685-0 .


Language of instruction čeština, angličtina, čeština, angličtina
Code 636-3016
Abbreviation MSPn
Course title Materials for special application
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Zdeněk Jonšta, CSc.