Analysis of Machine-part Failures (FSI-GA0)

Academic year 2025/2026
Supervisor: doc. Ing. Libor Pantělejev, Ph.D.  
Supervising institute: ÚMVI all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: Czech
Course type: departmental course
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The objective of the course is to make students familiar with problems of the degradation of materials and with methods for assessing the causes of machine part failures on such a level that they are able to solve the respective problem individually or in cooperation with specialized workplaces.
Students learn to regard materials as chemically and structurally heterogeneous systems, whose behaviour in real operation conditions is influenced exactly by these heterogeneities. The methodology used in seeking the causes of machine part failures will enable students to solve these problems in connection with the interplay of heterogeneous material, type of loading, and action of ambient environment.
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Type of course unit:
    Lecture  13 × 2 hrs. optionally                  
Course curriculum:
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1. Experimental methods most frequently used in analyses of the causes of failures (metallography - light and TEM microscopy, fractography - macro and micro, inclusive of REM, local microanalysis - EDS, WDS, AES).
2. Degradation of metallic materials in the course of production (metallurgy, welding, metal-forming, machining).
3.Chemical and related structural heterogeneity of metallic materials.
4. Examples of degradation processes in the course of operation (local types of corrosion, corrosion cracking, hydrogen embrittlement, radiation embrittlement, wear).
5. Methodology for assessing the causes of machine part failures, practical demonstrations.
6. Student presentations (see "Exam Form..."), practical demonstrations.
Literature - fundamental:
1. WULPI Donald J. Understanding How Components Fail. 2nd ed. Materials Park OH: ASM International, 2001, 293 s..ISBN 0-871-70-631-8.
2. Edit. Khelefa A. Esaklul. Handbook of Case Histories in Failure Analysis. Vol. 1. 2 Materials Park OH: ASM International, 1996. ISBN 0-87170-495-1.
3. BERK, Joseph Systems Failure Analysis, Materials Park OH: ASM Internationals: 2009, 214 s. ISBN 978-1615030125.
Literature - recommended:
1. 1. STRNADEL Bohumil. NAUKA O MATERIÁLU II.Degradační procesy a design konstrukčních materiálů. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2008. ISBN978-80-248-1842-9.
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
C-AKR-P full-time study CZS -- Ex 3 Elective 1 1 W
N-KSB-P full-time study --- no specialisation -- Ex 3 Compulsory 2 2 W