Course detail
Structure and Properties of Advanced Materials
FSI-TVN Acad. year: 2027/2028 Summer semester
The course aims to clarify for students the relationships between material properties and their structure, to introduce them to methods for predicting material characteristics, and to address the design of selected modern structural materials for use in technical practice.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
3
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Basic knowledge obtain in courses Introduction to Material Science and Engineering – BUM and Theoretical Mechanics and Continuum Mechanics – TMM
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Attendance at the seminar is mandatory and is monitored by the teacher. During the semester, students will be assigned two tasks evaluated with 2x10 points and a final task for 20 points. The date of compensation for missed lessons in the seminar will be determined upon agreement with the teacher.
Credit conditions: Achieving 20 points in total for all three tasks.
The exam will be in written form and 60 points can be obtained for it. The guideline for evaluation is the total (exercise + exam) number of points obtained: A: 90 – 100; B: 80 – 90; C: 70 – 80; D: 60 – 70; E: 50 – 60; F: 0 – 50. Details and clarifications are provided in the e-learning.
Aims
Emphasis is placed on clarifying the peculiarities of the microstructure of modern materials and understanding the physical nature of the relationships between their microstructure and mechanical properties.
The student will gain a basic overview of the structure, mechanical properties and use of modern materials in advanced technologies and engineering systems. By completing the course, he/she should be able to create a model of a crystal, calculate its energy and subsequently its selected characteristics, recognise the basic defects in the crystal lattice and describe their effect on the material properties. The student should also be able to describe and explain the response of so-called smart materials to the applied loading.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-FIN-P: Physical Engineering and Nanotechnology, Bachelor's, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
13 hours, optionally
Syllabus
Structure of ideal crystals, defects in atomic arrangement
Description of chemical bonds, computational materials science
Theory of material deformation and fracture
Fracture mechanics, cyclic plastic deformation, micromechanics of fracture
Nanomaterials, carbon fibers, nanolayers and nanotubes, magnetic nanomaterials, ultrafine-grained materials
Shape-memory materials: shape-memory effect, principles of mechatronic actuators
Composite materials: fiber composites and laminates, high-entropy alloys
Exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Calculation of crystal energy, empirical interatomic potentials, dislocation theory, material strengthening, stress concentration, fracture mechanics, fatigue fracture, deformation micromechanisms of ultrafine-grained materials
Computer-assisted exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Core topics: Modeling of crystal deformation and response, modeling of ideal crystal structures, semi-empirical interatomic potentials and ab initio methods, electronic structure calculation.
Advanced elective topics: Theoretical strength of carbon nanotubes, elasticity of ideal crystals, vibrational spectra of molecules, binding energy, molecular dynamics, stacking-fault energy, ferroelectricity, surface energy.