- Role of mathematical modelling and simulation in modern materials engineering.
- Use of computer technology at control of technological processes in metallurgy, prediction of properties and structure of metallic materials. Database systems in the field of materials engineering.
- Examples of software applications at teaching of materials engineering and at research metallic materials (database MAT.DB, software JMatPro, Software for Materials Science, software Materials Selector, software CASTI, database KOVY).
- Method CALPHAD - calculation of thermodynamic equilibrium with use of the software THERMOCALC (phase diagrams: binary, ternary, isothermal sections).
- Thermodynamic properties of components and phases, chemical reactions, equilibrium and non-equilibrium solidification of alloys, metastable equilibria, para-equilibrium state.
- Driving force at nucleation, oxidation processes, Pourbaix diagrams, arrangement of alloys at a great distance.
- Simulation of process kinetics using the software DICTRA - diffusion controlled transformations in alloys, theory of multi-component diffusion.
- Application of the software DICTRA at heat treatment of alloys: homogenisation of alloys, cementation, nitriding, phase transformations in real systems.
- Evolution of micro-structure - nucleation, growth and coarsening of phases, precipitation sequences.
- Interdiffusion in multi-component materials.
- Modelling of materials degradation.
-Simulation of phases interface during phase transformation proceses.
- Use of computer technology at control of technological processes in metallurgy, prediction of properties and structure of metallic materials. Database systems in the field of materials engineering.
- Examples of software applications at teaching of materials engineering and at research metallic materials (database MAT.DB, software JMatPro, Software for Materials Science, software Materials Selector, software CASTI, database KOVY).
- Method CALPHAD - calculation of thermodynamic equilibrium with use of the software THERMOCALC (phase diagrams: binary, ternary, isothermal sections).
- Thermodynamic properties of components and phases, chemical reactions, equilibrium and non-equilibrium solidification of alloys, metastable equilibria, para-equilibrium state.
- Driving force at nucleation, oxidation processes, Pourbaix diagrams, arrangement of alloys at a great distance.
- Simulation of process kinetics using the software DICTRA - diffusion controlled transformations in alloys, theory of multi-component diffusion.
- Application of the software DICTRA at heat treatment of alloys: homogenisation of alloys, cementation, nitriding, phase transformations in real systems.
- Evolution of micro-structure - nucleation, growth and coarsening of phases, precipitation sequences.
- Interdiffusion in multi-component materials.
- Modelling of materials degradation.
-Simulation of phases interface during phase transformation proceses.