Course detail
Materials Physics
FSI-5FM Acad. year: 2026/2027 Winter semester
The purporse of the course "Physics of materials" is to give to students necessary teoretical basic of turn-key solution of material problems. The main issue of this course is physical basis for manufacturing technologies of metalic constructional materials i.e. shanking, welding, cutting and founding. It includes phisico-chemical basic of production and treatment of ceramic and macromolecurlar materials as well as. In this way it creates cross-disciplinary structure with technologies of non-metalic materials. It gives information on deformation and fracture behaviour of materials, failure mechanisms and fracture mechanics bases. The knowledge of these course is presumtion of creative work in the field of engineering science i.e. engineering nad casting technology and engineering materials.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
5
Supervisor
Entry knowledge
The course continue knowledges from atomic composition field, chemical thermodynamic, electrochemistry, crystalline composition of metals, equilibrium and disequilibrium phase transformations focused on metal systems, deformation and fracture behaviour of materials and knowledge of structure and properties of basic groups of metalic and nonmetalic materials
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Students have to take part in all practices, to give over all protocols of laboratory practices, which have to meet commensurate scientific and graphic level. Students has to successfully two semestral tests. Knowledges of given topics are to be checked at the exam mainly by written form. List of topics will be notified to students at the beginning of the course. At the verbal part of the exam students will answer questions for other knowledges verification. Final classification includes: protocols evaluation, final thesis evaluation and results of the written and verbal parts of the exam.
Participation in practices is mandatory, must be properly excused absence. Attendance in practices will be checked, non-participation has to be duly excused. Basic credit conditions are continuous giving over protocols. Knowledges of lectured topics will be checked by two semestral tests. In the case of sick leave in practice given topic will be supplied by individual submission.
Aims
The aim of this course is to notify students of inner structure of real crystalic and amorphous materials (metals, polymers, ceramics)and of the influence of defects interaction and circulation on their material manufacture qualities and technological properties. The task of this course is to give knowledges about relationship among phase composition, material transformations and mechanical and brittle failure properties.
This subject is included into study plan of 3rd year of general bachelor's study as a compulsory-optional one. It is recommended as a prerequisite of branches M-KSB or M-MTL.
This course allowes students to obtain knowledges about inner structure of constructional materials and about thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of their phase transformations. In the course will be lectured destcription and law suits of diffusional process with reference to given phase transformations.Studets get knowledges about deformation and fracture behaviour of materials,fracture mechanics bases and selected processes of degradation (corrosion,abrasion)as well as.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-ZSI-P: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization STI: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Syllabus
Periodic system of elements, Chemical bound in solids.
The inner composition of metals and alloys, polymers and ceramic materials.
Defects of inner composition and it´s signification.
Thermodynamic of phase transformation of pure substance, solutions and intermediary phases. Entalphy diagrams.
Kinetic of phase transformations.
Diffusion in metals and alloys.
Using termodynamic, kinetic and diffusion in phase transformations. Transformations ordered by diffusion. Non-diffusion transformations.
Elastic, anelastic and plastic deformation. Types of hardening. Softening processes.
Bases of linear-elastic and elastic-plastic fracture mechanic.
Fracture behaviour of metals and alloys – ductile, brittle and fatigue fracture and creep fracture
Fracture behaviour of pomlymer and ceramic
Other degradation processes of materials – corrosion, abrasion etc.
Laboratory exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Crystal structures I – Miller´s indexes of directions and plains.
Crystal structures II – Bases atoms in crystal lettice.
Structure and properties of polymers.
Thermodynamic of pure substations – dependences determination of H,S,G = (T).
Thermodynamic of solutions – thermodynamic activity determination by method of carrier gas. The test.
Enthalpic diagrams for basic constitution diagrams.
Enthalpic diagrams for Fe – Fe3C system.
Size and growing of Austenite grain – driving force of growing determination, kinetic of grain growing.
Diffusion – I. and II. Fick´s law.
Overcooled austenite transformations – proeutectoid ferrite forming. The test.
Overcooled austenite transformations – IRA and ARA diagrams construction.
Fracture thoughness – testing, methodology and calculations, semestral thesis giving over.
X-ray analysis of the structure – interplane distance determination and the credit.