Course detail
Functional and Nanostructural Materials
FSI-WFN Acad. year: 2025/2026 Summer semester
The coars is concerned with the following topics:Introduction to non-conventional and advanced materials. Composites. Functionally graded materials. Coatings,layers and superfilms.
Nanocrystalline and nanostructured materials.Smart materials. Shape memory aloys. Superplasticity. Superconductivity. Metallic glasses and metallic foams. Powder metallurgy.
Ultralight alloys (Al-Li and Mg-Li).Intermetalics.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
5
Supervisor
Entry knowledge
Students are expected to have general knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry acquired at secondary school. They should have the basic
knowledge of technological processes of iron and non-iron metals and their alloy.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Conditions for awarding the course-unit credit: Having done all the assigned topics in exercises and preparation of the respective written tasks.
The exam has a written and an oral part. In the oral part, students answers three questions.
Compulsory attendance at exercises, preparing written reports and reading a paper on an assigned topic. Absence from exercises is dealt with individually.
Aims
The course objective is to make students familiar with a group of materials that feature specific performance properties or extreme parameters, and with a
group of so-called materials for third-millennium technology. Students get a practical knowledge of all new advanced (mostly metallic) materials with the
exception of ceramic and polymer materials, which are dealt with in separate courses.
Students will gain the most recent information on the basic characteristics, processing technologies, performance and application of non-conventional
materials, materials with extreme parameters, and materials for the third millennium such as metallic glass and foam, nanonstructured materials and
intermetallics.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-MTI-P: Materials Engineering, Master's, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1.Introduction to non-conventional and advanced materials.
2.Composites.
3.Shape memory materials-SMM
4.Smart(inteligent)materials.
5.Surfaces and coatings
6.Functionally graded material-FGM
7.Nanocrystalline and nanostructured materials ,nanotechnology I
8.Nanocrystalline and nanostructured materials ,nanotechnology II
9..Superconducting materials,
10.Metallic glasses. Metallic foams.
11.Powder metallurgy.
12.Examples of other types of advanced materials(metamaterials,biomaterials, biomimetic materials,etc.)
13.Superlight alloys and composites based on superlight alloys.
Laboratory exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1.Assigning of semestral work
2.Application of composit materials, selection of reinforced materials
3.Shape memory materials-examples
4.SMA and smart material-examples of using
5.Surfaces and coatings applications
6.Students presentations (lectures) dealing with previous materials
7. Severe plastic deformation SPD-examples of possibilities and results
8.Students presentations
9.Superconductors-examples, applications
10.Metallic glasses,metallic foams,applications
11.Laboratory of powder metallurgy.
12.Students presentations
13.Repetition,checking of knowledge,course-unit credit