Course detail

Aircraft Materials and Technology

FSI-OLR-A Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester

The course Aircraft Materials and Technology is focused on compositions, processing effects, microstructures, properties and typical applications of selected aircraft materials. Special material requirements. Aluminium alloys, magnesium alloys, titanium alloys, high strength steels, nickel-base and cobalt-base superalloys, fibre and particle composites, nanocomposites and smart materials for aircraft structures. New research and development, international material standards and equivalents.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

6

Supervisor

prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.

Department

Institute of Materials Science and Engineering

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge of relations between composition, processing, structure and properties of structural materials. Basic terminology of physical metallurgy and material limit states.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The course-unit credit requirements: 100% attendance at seminars. It is also necessary to submit completed and sophisticated computational exercises. Obtaining the credit is a condition for admission to the exam. The exam is written.
Attendance at seminars is compulsory. In case of justified absence, the missed seminar may be compensated with an individual assignment. Continuous checking is made by means of written tests. In case of a failure, it is required to repeat the test.

Aims

The aim of the course Aircraft Materials is to inform students of present state in the area of structural materials for aircraft structures and to provide them with methodical and objective knowledge.
The course Aircraft Materials makes students familiar with representative aircraft structural materials as well as with their optimal use. Students will be able to evaluate different material variants of aircraft structures according their strength, lifetime and damage tolerance.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-AST-A: Aerospace Technology, Master's, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the study of aviation materials


2. Al alloys – 1


3. Al alloys – 2


4. Mg alloys


5. Ti alloys


6. Steels


7. High temperature alloys, Ni and Co alloys


8. Composite materials


9. Sandwich structures


10. Nanomaterials and smart materials


11. Corrosion and corrosion protection


12. Forming of aircraft materials – Basics


13. Forming of aircraft materials – Forming methods overview

Laboratory exercise

2 hours, compulsory

Syllabus

3. Heat treatment of aluminium alloys
12. Metal sheet forming of light alloys


 

Exercise

11 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  1. Characteristics of aviation structural materials

  2. Characteristics of wrought and casted aluminium alloys

  3. Laboratory

  4. Magnesium alloys

  5. Titanium alloys

  6. High-strength steels in aviation

  7. Optimization of steel hardening process

  8. Characteristics of high-temperature aviation materials

  9. High-temperature super alloys, Nickel and Cobalt alloys

  10. Technology of aviation materials forming

  11. Formability of aviation materials

  12. Laboratory

  13. Rubber-pad forming