Course detail
Degradation Processes in Engineering Materials
FSI-EDE Acad. year: 2024/2025 Summer semester
The course is designed to familiarize students with the fundamental mechanisms of production and operation degradation of the properties of engineering materials, in particular steels and other metals. The knowledge obtained will provide, on the one hand, a more accurate determination of the limit state and a more effective exploitation of the materials used and, on the other hand, a qualified estimate of the failure causes.
Production degradation (metallurgy, purity, chemical and structural heterogeneity, and effects of welding as an example of the effect of the technological process itself). Issues of production degradation will be complemented by an overview of defects occurring in castings, formed iron and steel products and in welds.
Operation degradation (corrosion, hydrogen embrittlement, wear, radiation embrittlement, and structural stability). Methods of analysing the causes of defects in machine parts, including practical examples.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
9
Supervisor
Entry knowledge
The knowledge of mathematics and physics on the level of basic courses as given at technical universities and science faculties. The basic knowledge in the field of materials engineering and related manufacturing technologies (metallurgy, foundry engineering, metal forming, and welding). The knowledge of the following experimental methods is also assumed: metallography, scanning and transmission microscopy, X-ray spectral microanalysis (EDS and WDS).
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Conditions for awarding the corse-unit credit: Attendance at seminars , demonstrating the basic knowledge of the topics dealt with in the course of exercises when solving model problems. Exam: The knowledge of concepts, definitions and essentials of the topics discussed is tested. The emphasis is laid on testing the ability to apply the knowledge obtained. The exam is oral, in the case of second resit there is also a written part.
Education is controlled via the attendance at seminars; the attendance is recorded by the tutor. If the serious lack of knowledge or absence from exercises is found, the tutor assigns a topic for an individual written report.
Aims
The course objective is to familiarize students with problems of production and operation degradations in engineering materials on such a level that they should be able to assess the effect of the technologies used as well as of the conditions of exploitation on the properties of the materials of component parts and structures.
The course will provide students with the basic information on production and operation degradation in engineering materials. Students will learn to regard material as a chemically and structurally heterogeneous body, whose states can be greatly affected by exploitation conditions.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme C-AKR-P: , Lifelong learning
specialization CLS: , elective
Programme B-ZSI-P: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization MTI: Materials Engineering, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Fractography of metallic materials (basic mechanisms and selected defective fractures).
2. Effect of metallurgy on the properties of steels.
3. Purity and its effect on the properties of materials.
4. Chemical and related structural heterogeneity.
6. Production and operation degradation in weld joints, stability of structure.
7. Defects of casings and weldments.
8. Damage due to corrosion.
10. Hydrogen embrittlement.
11. Damage due to radiation.
12. Wear öf materials.
13. Analyses of the causes of machine part failures.
Exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Fractography – basic failure mechanisms.
2. Fractography – some types of defective fracture.
3. Deoxidation of steels by aluminium (pinholes, rocky candy fractures, types od suphide inclusionns).
4. Dendritic segregation, microsegregation – calculation, effect on properties.
5. Defects of casting and weldments, demonstrations.
6. Defects of formed iron and steel products, demonstrations.
7. Excursion to the metallurgical company (ŽĎAS).
8. Presentation of cases hydrogen embrittlement.
9. Wear of materials, calculations.
10. Wear of materials, presentations.
11. Presentation of cases of corrosion damage.
12. Analyses of causes of machine part failures.
13. Final consultation, corse-unit credit: