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Engineering materials

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Course Unit Code636-0417/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
KRA58Ing. Martin Kraus, Ph.D.
Summary
Basic information on the ambit of crystalline structures of metalic materials, including their defects. Principal binary diagrams, crystallization. Binary diagram Fe-C. Transformation diagrams IRA, ARA, basics of heat treatment of metalic materials. Principles of mechanical testing. Structural characteristics of polymeric materials, their mechanical, thermal and corrosion properties.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The student will get an overview of basic types of metallic and non-metallic materials.
They will learn to define the crystalline structure and the grid breakdown of metallic materials and the bonding of polymeric materials.
Student can master basic types of binary diagrams, Fe-C diagram and transformation diagrams.
He gains knowledge of special metal materials.
They master the problems of structural design and structure influence on mechanical properties, including their evaluation.
They will learn to characterize basic types of polymeric materials.
Course Contents
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.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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.
RYŠ, P., M. CENEK, K. MAZANEC, A. HRBEK. Nauka o materiálu I/4. Praha, vyd. Academia, 1975.
SKOČOVSKÝ, Peter aj. Nauka o materiáli pre odbory strojnícke. Žilina, vyd. Žilinská univerzita, 2006. ISBN 8080705933.
MLEZIVA, J. a J. ŠŇUPÁREK. Polymery: výroba, struktura, vlastnosti a použití. Sobotáles, Praha, 2012.ISBN 978-80-85920-72-7.
ASHBY,M.F.and D.R.H.JONES. Engineering Materials 2,Butterworth, Oxford, 2012.ISBN 978-0080966687.
Recommended Reading:
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.
PTÁČEK,Luděk aj. Nauka o materiálu I. Brno, ak. vyd. CERM, 2001. ISBN 8072042831.
PTÁČEK,Luděk aj. Nauka o materiálu II. Brno, ak. vyd. CERM, 2002. ISBN 8072042483.
MACEK, Karel aj. Nauka o materiálu. Praha, vyd. ČVUT, 1999. ISBN 80-01-01507-6.
ASKELAND, D.R., P.P. PHULÉ. Essentials of Materials Science and Engineering. 2nd ed., Toronto, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0-495-24446-2.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Experimental work in labs
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit30 15
        ExaminationExamination70 36