prof. Ing. Martin Hartl, Ph.D.

Institute of Machine and Industrial Design

General courses on mechanics, machine design, material sciences and hydromechanics.

Conditions for gaining the exam:

• submission and defense of individual work on selected theme related to the field of contact problems, lubrication, friction or wear. The work includes theoretical description, calculations and analysis of own or published experimental results.

Absence from lessons may be compensated for according to instructions of the teacher.

Czech

Absolvents are able to analyse and solve advance problems of friction, lubrication and wear of contacts in machines. Focus is payed on improvement of abilities to understand, describe and interpret own observations of tribology experiments and simulations.

• Ability to solve problems of tribological contact.
• Ability to select, design and conduct appropriate tribological test.
• Ability to apply fundamental possibilities of theoretical calculations.
• Ability to compare results of experiments with theory, interpret results and make conclusions.

Programme D-KPI-K: Design and Process Engineering, Doctoral
branch ---: no specialisation, 0 credits, recommended course

Programme D-KPI-P: Design and Process Engineering, Doctoral
branch ---: no specialisation, 0 credits, recommended course

20 hours, compulsory

- Tribological system and processes. Principles and regimes of lubrication.
- Material Properties. Lubricant Rheology.
- Elastostatic Contacts. Contact between rough surfaces. Stresses and Contact Fatigue.
- Governing Equations of Fluid Film Lubrication. Theory of Conformal and Non-conforming Contacts Lubrication.
- Thermal, Transient and Abnormal Phenomena in Contacts.
- Friction and Non-linear Lubricant Behavior in Contacts. Micro-EHD lubrication and mixed EHD lubrication.
- Boundary lubrication, solid lubricants and coatings.
- Wear mechanisms and wear analysis.