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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Engineering materials

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 653-2041/01
Abbreviation TM auto
Course title Engineering materials
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator Ing. Kateřina Konečná, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:

- Introduction - Overview of technical materials.
- Construction of a metals, lattice defects - point, line, surface, solid solutions, intermediate phases, mechanical mixtures.
- Crystallization of metals and alloys, basic binary diagrams.
- Main binary diagrams.
- Iron-carbon diagram. Crystallization of alloys with graded carbon content.
- Transformation diagrams, IRA, ARA.
- Fundamentals of heat treatment. Basic types.
- Fundamentals of testing mechanical properties.
- Distribution of materials based on polymers. The technical importance of macromolecular substances. The basic division.
- The basic structural characteristics, formation of macromolecular substances, their processing.
- Mechanical, corrosion and thermal characteristics of different groups of polymers and their degradation.
- Application areas of the main groups of macromolecular substances in the automotive industry.

Exercise:

- Introduction exercises. Familiarization with the filling of the exercises. Recommended reading. Safety in laboratories. Distribution of technical materials.
- Descriptions of the basic binary diagrams. Calculations.
- Descriptions of more dificult binary diagrams. Calculations. Program number 1
- Diagram of iron-carbon, iron cast and steel division. Program number 2
- Basics of metallographic sample preparation, metallographic microscopes.
- Practical metallographic preparation of specific samples of steel and cast iron.
- Evaluation of the structures, structural content of prepared samples and other metallographic evaluation. Program number 3
- Evaluation number 1.
- Heat treatment of steels, transformation diagrams, hardening capacity of steels.
- Basic mechanical properties of metals, Hooke's Law, modulus of elasticity.
- Mechanical properties of polymers and non-ferrous metals as compared with steels.
- Technically important types of macromolecular substances. Program number 4
- Evaluation number 2
- Credits count. Compensatory and alternative evaluations.

Literature

ASHBY,M.F.and D.R.H.JONES. Engineering Materials 2,Butterworth, Oxford, 2012.ISBN 978-0080966687.
ASKELAND, D.R., et. al. The Science and Engineering of Materials. Springer US, 1996. ISBN 978-1-4899-2895-5 .
ASM INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK COMMITTE. ASM Handbook Volume 21: Composites. ASM International 2001. ISBN 978-0-87170-703-1.

Advised literature

ASKELAND, D.R., P.P. PHULÉ. Essentials of Materials Science and Engineering. 2nd ed., Toronto, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0-495-24446-2 .
DONACHIE, M.J., S.J. DONACHIE. Superalloys: a technical guide, 2nd. ed., ASM International. Materials Park, Ohio, USA, 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0-87170-749-9.
CALLISTER, W.D., Jr. and D.G. Rethwish. Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering. 3rd ed., John Wiley and Sons, 2008. ISBN 978-0-470-12537-3.