Selected Chapters in Materials Science (FSI-9VFM)

Academic year 2021/2022
Supervisor: prof. Mgr. Miroslav Černý, Ph.D.  
Supervising institute: ÚFI all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: Czech or English
Aims of the course unit:
The objective is to make students familiar with the connections between the structure of real metallic and non-metallic crystals and the physical processes of their technological applications (heat treatment, metal forming, welding, casting).
Learning outcomes and competences:
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, with the fundamentals of fracture mechanics, and with selected degradation processes (corrosion, wear).
Prerequisites:
Fundamental knowledge of inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry, crystallography,and physics of solids. Fundamental notions from the field of thermodynamics. Fundamentals of materials science.
Course contents:
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.
Teaching methods and criteria:
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes:
Students sit an examination as part of their doctoral studies.
Controlled participation in lessons:
Students regularly attend lectures, recommended seminars and seminar consultations.
Type of course unit:
    Lecture  10 × 2 hrs. optionally                  
Course curriculum:
    Lecture 1. Chemical bonds in solids.
2. Structure of matter and lattice defects.
3. Vibrations of the crystal lattice.
4. Thermodynamics of phase transformation.
5. Diffusion in materials, mechanisms and quantitative descriptions.
6. Application of termodynamics, kinetics and diffusion in phase transformations.
7. Transformations controlled by diffusion.
8. Diffusionless transformations.
Extent and details consulted will depend on PhD topics and other PhD courses content.
Literature - fundamental:
1. Kittel, C: Kittel′s Introduction to Solid State Physics 8th Edition, Wiley, 2018
3. D. C. Wallace: Thermodynamics of Crystals. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1972
Literature - recommended:
1. Umeno Y. et al. Multiphysics in Nanostructures, Springer Tokyo 2017
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
D-MAT-P full-time study --- no specialisation -- DrEx 0 Recommended course 3 1 W
D-MAT-K combined study --- no specialisation -- DrEx 0 Recommended course 3 1 W