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Materials Testing and Defectoscopy

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 653-2006/03
Abbreviation ZMaDn
Course title Materials Testing and Defectoscopy
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Jonšta, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic terms - quality, property. Classification of properties and testing methods.
2. Summary of crystallography terms, Miller indexes, defects of lattice.
3. Elasticity. Definition of stress, strain, state of stress (tenzors of stress and strain), Hook´s law, energy of elastic deformation, isotropic body.
4.-5. Basics of dislocation theory. Definition, classification of dislocations according to the Burger´s vector size and its orientation towards the dislocation line. Stress field, energy of dislocations, mobility of dislocations, Frank-Read source. Plastic deformation from the point of view of dislocation theory.
6. Tensile test. Definition and evaluation of yield point and ultimate strength, ductility and contraction. Uniform and non-uniform deformation, conventional diagram of tensile test, diagram of true stress-true strain. Additional basic static tests.
7. Hardness tests. Definition of hardness, overview and principles of individual tests.
8.-9. Mechanical properties of structural materials in real conditions of loading, limiting states. Materials properties at low temperatures and at higher strain rates, tests of specimens with notches or cracks. Evaluation of resistance against brittle fracture - impact bending test, Vidal´s curve, evaluation of the transition temperature. Basics of fracture mechanics, overview of testing methods, evaluation of fracture toughness.
10. Materials properties at repeated cyclic loading - fatigue. Testing methods, S-N curve, Smith´s diagram.
11. Materials properties at elevated temperatures. Creep and relaxation tests.
12.-13. Overview of technological tests. Defectoscopy, classification and principles of testing methods, applications in practice.
14. Summary, case studies.

Literature

CALLISTER, W. D. Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction. 7th ed. New York: Wiley, 2007. ISBN 978-0-471-73696-7.
HOSFORD, F. W. Mechanical Behavior of Materials. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2010. ISBN 978-0-521-19569-0 .
HELLIER, J. CH. Handbook of Nondestructive Evaluation. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2020. ISBN 978-1-260-44143-7 .

Advised literature

JONES, R. H. D., ASHBY, F. M. Engineering Materials 1: An Introduction to Properties, Applications and Design. 5th ed. Elsevier Ltd. 2019. ISBN 978-0-08-102051-7 .
DOWLING, N. E. Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Engineering Methods for Deformation, Fracture, and Fatigue. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2007. ISBN 0-13-186312-6.
MIX, E. P. Introduction to Nondestructive Testing: A Training Guide. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 2005. ISBN 978-0-471-42029-3 .