636-0401 – 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
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Summary
Historical evolution of construction materials ; internal structure of solid
substances ; principal mechanical properties and methods of their testing ;
thermodynamical principles of solid substances ; pure substances ; binary
systems ; iron – carbon system ; main groups of construction materials –
steels
and cast irons, non-ferrous metals, polymers, construction ceramics,
composites.
Compulsory literature:
[1] Callister, W.D.: Fundamentals of Materials science and Engineering, John Wiley
Publ., 2005.
Recommended literature:
[1] Ohring, M.: Engineering Materials Science. Academic Press, USA, 1995, 827p.
Prerequisities
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.