Course detail
Structure and Properties of Advanced Materials
FSI-TVN Acad. year: 2025/2026 Summer semester
Crystalline structure, microstructure, mechanical properties. Prediction of materials characteristics. Application of selected advanced materials in the engineering practice. Nanostructured materials – carbon fibers, nanolayers and nanotubes, bulk magnetic nanomaterials and ultra-fine grained materials. Shape-memory alloys – shape-memory effect and principles of mechatronic actuators. Composite materials – fiber- and particle-reinforced composites and laminates.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
3
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Solid State Physics, Materials Science and Engineering.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The assessment of a student is made upon his performance in practice and results of a final test.
The presence of students at practice is obligatory and is monitored by a tutor. The way how to compensate missed practice lessons will be decided by a tutor depending on the range and content of the missed lessons.
Aims
The main aim lies in elucidation of unique microstructure of advanced materials as well as in understanding a physical nature of relationship between the microstructure and mechanical properties of such materials. The student also gains basic information about possibilities of application of these materials in the recent engineering practice.
The student gains basic information concerning structure, mechanical properties, and applications of advanced materials in recent engineering and technology.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-FIN-P: Physical Engineering and Nanotechnology, Bachelor's, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
13 hours, optionally
Syllabus
Structure of ideal crystals and atomic bonding, defects of atomic structure
Theory of deformation and fracture
Fracture mechanics
- cyclic plasticity
- micromechanics of fracture
Nanomaterials:
- carbon fibers, layers and tubes
- magnetic nanomaterials
ultra-fine grained materials
Shape-memory alloys: shape-memory effect, principles of mechatronic actuators
Composite materials: fiber reinforced composites and laminates, particle-reinforced composites
Exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Description of atomic bonds, empirical interatomic potentials
Defects in crystal lattice, theory of dislocations
Fracture mechanics:
- stress- strain field at the crack tip
- quantitative fractography of fatigue fracture
Nanomaterials and shape-memory alloys:
- deformation micromechanisms of ultra-fine grained materials
Computer-assisted exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Modeling deformation and response of crystals
- models of ideal crystal structure
- semiempirical interatomic potentials
- ab initio methods, molecular dynamics
Selected advanced topics:
- theoretical strength of carbon nanotubes
- elasticity of ideal crystals
vibrational spectra of molecules