Course detail

Selected Chapters in Materials Science

FSI-9VFM Acad. year: 2022/2023 Winter semester

This course provides students with the theoretical foundations necessary for a complex solution of materials problems. It is conceived as the physical basis of processing technologies of metallic as well as nonmetallic structural metarials. It also includes physical-chemical fundamentals of the sythesis of materials and provides in-depth information about the deformation and fracture behaviour of materials, failure mechanisms, and fundamentals of fracture mechanics.

Language of instruction

Czech

Learning outcomes of the course unit

This course enables students to acquire a knowledge about the internal structure of structural materials and about the thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of their phase transformations. Students are also made familiar with the deformation and fracture behaviour of materials, with the fundamentals of fracture mechanics, and with selected degradation processes (corrosion, wear).

Prerequisites

Fundamental knowledge of inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry, crystallography,and physics of solids. Fundamental notions from the field of thermodynamics. Fundamentals of materials science.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Students sit an examination as part of their doctoral studies.

Aims

The objective is to make students familiar with the connections between the structure of real metallic and non-metallic crystals and the physical processes of their technological applications (heat treatment, metal forming, welding, casting).

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Students regularly attend lectures, recommended seminars and seminar consultations.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme D-MAT-P: Materials Sciences, Doctoral, recommended course

Programme D-MAT-K: Materials Sciences, Doctoral, recommended course

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

20 hours, optionally

Syllabus

1. Chemical bonds in solids.
2. Structure of matter and lattice defects.
3. Vibrations of the crystal lattice.
4. Thermodynamics of phase transformation.
5. Diffusion in materials, mechanisms and quantitative descriptions.
6. Application of termodynamics, kinetics and diffusion in phase transformations.
7. Transformations controlled by diffusion.
8. Diffusionless transformations.
Extent and details consulted will depend on PhD topics and other PhD courses content.