Course detail
Aircraft Materials and Technology
FSI-OLR Acad. year: 2023/2024 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.
Supervisor
Learning outcomes of the course unit
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.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of relations between composition, processing, structure and properties of structural materials. Basic terminology of physical metallurgy and material limit states.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures. Teaching is suplemented by practical laboratory work.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
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.
Language of instruction
Czech
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.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-LKT-P: Aerospace Technology , Master's
branch STL: Aircraft Design, 6 credits, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
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
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Characteristics of aviation structural materials
- Characteristics of wrought and casted aluminium alloys
- Laboratory
- Magnesium alloys
- Titanium alloys
- High-strength steels in aviation
- Optimization of steel hardening process
- Characteristics of high-temperature aviation materials
- High-temperature super alloys, Nickel and Cobalt alloys
- Technology of aviation materials forming
- Formability of aviation materials
- Laboratory
- Rubber-pad forming