636-0027 – Materials Science I (NOM I)
| Gurantor department | Department of Material Engineering |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Dr. Ing. Jaroslav Sojka |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
- Explain the principal concepts of thermodynamics and their importance in materials study;
- Outline the internal structure of structural materials on different scale ranges;
- Describe the basic properties of structural materials and methods how to evaluate them;
- Clarify relationships between internal structure and properties of structural materials;
- Outline basic processes – solidification and solid phase transformations – in one-component systems;
- Differentiate the behaviour of two- component systems and describe eutectic, eutectoid, peritectic and peritectoid reactions;
- Analyse more complicated binary systems;
- Outline behaviour of iron – carbon system and deduce properties of typical alloys.
Teaching methods
Summary
Crystalline and amorphous state of materials, crystal lattices. Imperfection of
crystal structure.Thermodynamic stability conditions. Crystallization of pure
metals, crystalline structure of alloys.Equilibrium binary diagrams, standard
types and reactions. Binary diagrams with allotropic modifications, reactions.
Iron-carbon system, metastable and stable. Classification of steels and cast
iron, notation. Alloying elements in steels.Basics of transformation diagrams,
classification of heat processing.
Compulsory literature:
1. Callister, W.D.: Fundamentals of Materials science and Engineering, Wiley
Publ., 2005.
Recommended literature:
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.