Course detail
Engineering Materials and Heat Treatment
FSI-HMT Acad. year: 2025/2026 Summer semester
The course Engineering Materials and Heat Treatment familiarises students with constructional and tool metals, as well as non-metal materials, which are used in mechanical engineering nowadays. Lessons are focused on relations among the chemical composition, properties, structure of material, and its use. Emphasis is placed on linking theoretical knowledge and practical ability to solve the most common problems associated with material sciences occurring in technical practice.
The course deals with the following topics:
– influence of metallurgy on properties and structure of steel and alloys
– phase changes during the heat processing
– construction steel
– weldability of steels
– mechanical properties of steels
– steels and alloys for casts
– tool materials.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
4
Supervisor
Entry knowledge
The course is a follow-up to the courses BUM and 3SV and is intended to deepen and widen the acquired knowledge in the area of engineering applications.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Course-unit credit is awarded on condition of having attended 100% seminars with active participation and worked out a paper regarding the presented topics. Excused absence has to be compensated for via working out an alternative assignment. The exam has a written and an oral part. The written part is focused on four of the main topics presented in the lectures. In the oral part of the exam a student answers additional and complementary questions.
Missed lessons may be compensated for by the agreement with the teacher.
Aims
The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge necessary to choose and use constructional materials in order to reach utility properties. The course is a follow-up to the following courses: "Introduction to Material Science and Engineering", "Structure and Property of Materials", and is intended to deepen and widen the acquired knowledge in the area of engineering applications.
Completion of the course should enable students to select a suitable material for a specific application, including the design of its heat treatment or surface treatment. At the same time, students should be able to identify the most common problems in practice related to materials and their processing.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-STG-P: Manufacturing Technology, Master's
specialization STG: Manufacturing Technology, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction, evaluation of material hardness
2. Evaluation of hardness and microhardness of layers and coatings
3. Austenitization, Basic types of heat treatment
4. Processes of quenching and tempering
5. Chemical-heat treatment
6. Construction steel I.
7. Construction steel II.
8. Corrosion-resistant and refractory materials
9. Tool steels I.
10. Tool steels II., Selected types of coatings for NO and RO
11. Steels for castings and graphitic cast irons
12. Non-ferrous metals and their alloys I. – Al, Mg
13. Non-ferrous metals and their alloys II – Cu, Ti, Ni
Laboratory exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction, evaluation of material hardness
2. Evaluation of hardness and microhardness of layers and coatings
3. Austenitization, Basic types of heat treatment
4. Processes of quenching and tempering
5. Chemical-heat treatment
6. Construction steel I.
7. Corrosion-resistant and refractory materials
8. Tool steels I.
9. Tool steels II., Selected types of coatings for NO and RO
10. Steels for castings and graphitic cast irons
11. Non-ferrous metals and their alloys I. – Al, Mg
12. Non-ferrous metals and their alloys II – Cu, Ti, Ni
13. Excursion