Course detail

Selected Chapters in Materials Science

FSI-9VFMAcad. year: 2024/2025

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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Mgr. Miroslav Černý, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Physical Engineering (ÚFI)

Entry knowledge

Fundamental knowledge of inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry, crystallography,and physics of solids. Fundamental notions from the field of thermodynamics. Fundamentals of materials science.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Students sit an examination as part of their doctoral studies.
Students regularly attend lectures, recommended seminars and seminar consultations.

Aims

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.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

D. C. Wallace: Thermodynamics of Crystals. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1972 (EN)
Kittel, C: Kittel′s Introduction to Solid State Physics 8th Edition, Wiley, 2018 (EN)

Recommended reading

Umeno Y. et al. Multiphysics in Nanostructures, Springer Tokyo 2017 (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme D-MAT-P Doctoral 1 year of study, winter semester, recommended course
  • Programme D-MAT-K Doctoral 1 year of study, winter semester, recommended course

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

20 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Mgr. Miroslav Černý, Ph.D.

Syllabus

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.