Course detail

Selected Chapters in Materials Science

FSI-9VFM Acad. year: 2024/2025 Winter semester

This course provides students with the theoretical foundations necessary for a complex solution of materials problems. It is conceived as the physical basis of processing technologies of metallic as well as nonmetallic structural metarials. It also includes physical-chemical fundamentals of the sythesis of materials and provides in-depth information about the deformation and fracture behaviour of materials, failure mechanisms, and fundamentals of fracture mechanics.

Supervisor

prof. Mgr. Miroslav Černý, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Physical Engineering

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Prerequisites

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Language of instruction

Czech

Aims

The objective is to make students familiar with the connections between the structure of real metallic and non-metallic crystals and their mechanical properties.
This course enables students to acquire a knowledge about the internal structure of structural materials and about the thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of their phase transformations. Students are also made familiar with the deformation and fracture behaviour of materials and with the fundamentals of fracture mechanics.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The study programmes with the given course

Programme D-MAT-P: Materials Sciences, Doctoral
branch ---: no specialisation, 0 credits, recommended course

Programme D-MAT-K: Materials Sciences, Doctoral
branch ---: no specialisation, 0 credits, recommended course

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

20 hours, optionally

Syllabus

1. Chemical bonds in solids, electronic structure.
2. Structure of matter and lattice defects.
3. Vibrations of molecules, phonons in the crystal lattice.
4. Thermodynamics of phase transformations.
5. Diffusion in materials, mechanisms and quantitative descriptions.
6. Strength and stability.
Extent and details consulted will depend on PhD topics and other PhD courses content.