Selected Chapters in Materials Science (FSI-9VFM)

Academic year 2024/2025
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 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.
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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.
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Controlled participation in lessons:
 
Type of course unit:
    Lecture  10 × 2 hrs. optionally                  
Course curriculum:
    Lecture

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.
Literature - fundamental:
1. C. Kittel: Introduction to Solid State Physics, Wiley; 8 edition 2004
2. D. C. Wallace: Thermodynamics of Crystals. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1972
3. J. Knott: Fundamentals of Fracture Mechanics Butterworth & Co Publishers Ltd, 1973
Literature - recommended:
1. Umeno Y. et al. Multiphysics in Nanostructures, Springer Tokyo 2017
2. Anderson, J.C.: Materials Science, Chapmen & Hall, London 1990 
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