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Modern methods of heat treatment

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 653-3009/02
Abbreviation MMTZn
Course title Modern methods of heat treatment
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petra Váňová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

- Importance of heat treatment. Phase transformations in steels. Modification of the structure during heating.
- Annealing, effect of temperature and cooling method on the final structure.
- Quenching, tempering. The physical nature of temper embrittlement. Evaluation of hardenability.
- Vacuum heat treatment. Cryogenic heat treatment of steels.
- Hardening of the surface with subsequent heat treatment. Carburising in atmospheres, low-pressure carburising, nitrocarburising, boriding.
- Hardening of the surface without subsequent heat treatment. Nitriding in gas, plasma nitriding, carbonitriding. ionic implementation.
- Use of laser and plasma heating and electric rapid heating for heat treatment.
- Heat treatment of multiphase steels.
- Heat treatment of tool steels.
- Heat treatment of stainless steels.
- Thermo-mechanical processing.
- Heat treatment of parts produced by additive technologies.
- Heat treatment of non-ferrous metals (Al, Cu alloys), solution annealing and precipitation hardening.

E-learning

LMS Moodle

Literature

MAZANCOVÁ, E. Modern Methods of Heat Treatment. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2013. Available from: https://www.vsb.cz/e-vyuka/en
VERDEJA GONZÁLEZ, José Ignacio; FERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, Daniel a VERDEJA GONZÁLEZ, Luis Felipe. Physical metallurgy and heat treatment of steel. Topics in mining, metallurgy and materials engineering. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2023. ISBN 978-3-031-05701-4.
HERRING, Daniel. Vacuum heat treatment: principles, practices, applications. Troy: BNP Media, 2012. ISBN 978-0-9767565-0-7.

Doporučená literatura

BRYSON, William E. Heat treatment: master control manual. Munich: Hanser, 2015. ISBN 978-1-56990-485-5 .