SLO/ZNM1 Materials Science Basics 1

Lecturers: Petr Schovánek, Radim Čtvrtlík, Jan Tomáštík
Lecture: 3 hours/week
Credits: 3
Winter semester
Form of course completion: exam

• Technical materials – overview
• Metals – ferrous alloys, non-ferrous metals
• Non-metal materials – plastics, glass, ceramics
• Materials properties of technical materials
• Kinds of atomic bonds
• Internal structure of metals
• Crystalline structure of metals – lattice, crystallography
• Real lattice – defects
• Basics of thermodynamics
  - thermodynamics of metals
  - diffusion
  - phase transformations
• Metals and alloys crystallization
• Solubility of metals
• Solid solution
• Equilibrium diagrams
• Eutectic, eutectoid, peritectic transformation
• Crystallization of ferrous alloys – equilibrium diagrams
• Allotropic transformations
• Structural compounds of steels and cast irons
• Diagrams of isotropic and anisotropic decomposition of austenite
• Heat treatment basics
• Classification of steels and cast irons