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Ceramics, composites, polymers

Summary

-Ceramics as an important technical material and its classification. Technological processes for the production of technical ceramics. Properties of technical ceramics, mechanical properties, internal factors affecting the strength of ceramic materials, fracture toughness, physical properties, thermal properties. Brittleness of ceramics and its causes. Strengthening mechanisms in ceramic materials.
-Polymer materials, historical aspects. Thermoplastics, thermosets, elastomers. Classification and characteristics of polymer materials.
-Composite materials, basic characteristics and classification. Particle composites with various types of matrices. Fiber composites, general characteristics of fibers, fiber composites with a polymer matrix.
-General principles of the relationship between structure and strength properties. Properties of the most famous technical materials - ceramics, polymers, composites, applications in practice, perspectives of their further development and use.

Literature

ASKELAND, Donald R. a PHULÉ, Pradeep Prabhakar. The science and engineering of materials. CD-ROM. 5th ed. Stamford: Cengage Learning, c2008. ISBN 978-0-534-55396-8.

ASHBY, M. F.; SHERCLIFF, Hugh a CEBON, David. Introduction to materials science and engineering: a design-led approach. Oxford, United Kingdom: Butterworth-Heinemann, an imprint of Elsevier, [2024]. ISBN 978-0-08-102399-0.

GAY, Daniel. Composite materials: design and applications. Third edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]. ISBN 978-1-4665-8487-7.

Advised literature

ASLAM, Ruby a VERMA, Chandrabhan (ed.). Fiber materials: design, fabrication and applications. Berlin: De Gruyter, [2023]. ISBN 978-3-11-099274-8.


Language of instruction čeština, angličtina, čeština
Code 653-2211
Abbreviation KKPn
Course title Ceramics, composites, polymers
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petra Váňová, Ph.D.