- Introduction and overview of materials used in military, power engineering, aerospace and other areas. Development and present state of materials usage.
- Materials for armouring of military vehicles. Fundamental principles of protection. Passive armouring, reactive armouring, active armouring.
- Classification of armour protection according to the internal structure and structural arrangement. Homogenous armours, sandwich armours. Metallic armours - steels , aluminum or titanium alloys. Non-metallic armours – based on aramids, poly-ethylenes, glass fibres or laminates, ceramics. Transparent armours.
- Selected alloys used in equipment for conversion of power at elevated temperatures (gas turbines, turbo-reactive motors). History of development. Classification in term of technologies development; processing technologies of the alloys. General characteristics of nickel, iron and cobalt alloys. Perspectives of use, current directions of development.
- Structural parameters of Fe, Ni, or Co superalloys. Influence of alloying elements. Strength properties at low and elevated temperatures. Strengthening phases, TPC phases. Protection of alloys against oxidation; protective layers.
- Rapid solidification – basics of thermodynamics and kinetics; influence of cooling rate on the structure feature. Processing technologies of amorphous metals.
- Amorphous metals – basic properties of amorphous state. Thermodynamic and kinetic conditions, influences on homogenous nucleation of crystalline phases in the melt. Thermodynamic parameters TM, Tg, Tgr for preparing amorphous materials.
- Properties of amorphous metals: mechanical, magnetic and corrosisive. Devitrification of amorphous metals. Perspectives and limitation of use.
- Materials with nanocrystalline structure. Fundamental physical-chemical and structural properties. Techniques of preparation of nanocrystalline materials - condensation from gaseous phase, mechanical alloying, etc. Structures and purity of nanocrystalline materials.
- Mechanical properties of nanocrystalline materials. Thermal stability of nanocrystalline structures. Multi-phase nanocrystalline materials. Perspectives for technical use.
- Composite materials and laminates. Classification in term of phase composition. Characteristics and requirements, processing technologies.
- Polymeric matrix – unsaturated polyesters, vinyl-ester bitumens, epoxide bitumens. Properties, basic types.
- Materials for armouring of military vehicles. Fundamental principles of protection. Passive armouring, reactive armouring, active armouring.
- Classification of armour protection according to the internal structure and structural arrangement. Homogenous armours, sandwich armours. Metallic armours - steels , aluminum or titanium alloys. Non-metallic armours – based on aramids, poly-ethylenes, glass fibres or laminates, ceramics. Transparent armours.
- Selected alloys used in equipment for conversion of power at elevated temperatures (gas turbines, turbo-reactive motors). History of development. Classification in term of technologies development; processing technologies of the alloys. General characteristics of nickel, iron and cobalt alloys. Perspectives of use, current directions of development.
- Structural parameters of Fe, Ni, or Co superalloys. Influence of alloying elements. Strength properties at low and elevated temperatures. Strengthening phases, TPC phases. Protection of alloys against oxidation; protective layers.
- Rapid solidification – basics of thermodynamics and kinetics; influence of cooling rate on the structure feature. Processing technologies of amorphous metals.
- Amorphous metals – basic properties of amorphous state. Thermodynamic and kinetic conditions, influences on homogenous nucleation of crystalline phases in the melt. Thermodynamic parameters TM, Tg, Tgr for preparing amorphous materials.
- Properties of amorphous metals: mechanical, magnetic and corrosisive. Devitrification of amorphous metals. Perspectives and limitation of use.
- Materials with nanocrystalline structure. Fundamental physical-chemical and structural properties. Techniques of preparation of nanocrystalline materials - condensation from gaseous phase, mechanical alloying, etc. Structures and purity of nanocrystalline materials.
- Mechanical properties of nanocrystalline materials. Thermal stability of nanocrystalline structures. Multi-phase nanocrystalline materials. Perspectives for technical use.
- Composite materials and laminates. Classification in term of phase composition. Characteristics and requirements, processing technologies.
- Polymeric matrix – unsaturated polyesters, vinyl-ester bitumens, epoxide bitumens. Properties, basic types.