Department of Material Science
Name of Subject :
NON-METALLIC MATERIALS
Faculty :
Mechanical Engineering
Type of Study :
Magister
Study Discipline :
Engineering Technology
Study Direction :
Material Engineering
Type of Subject :
Obligatory eligible
Semester:
9-th
Extent :
2/2exam
Garant of Subject :
Doc. Ing. Karel Daďourek, CSc. - DepMatSci
Lecturer:
Doc. Ing. Karel Daďourek, CSc. - DepMatSci
Ing. Dora Kroisová, PhD. - DepMatSci
RNDr. František Lednický, CSc.- DepMatSci
LECTURES:
1. Amorphous state and its properties. Crystallization rate. Nucleation rate.
Possibility of nucleation influencing. Connection between nucleation rate and
crystalline structure.
2. Glassforming oxides. Glassforming additives. Stabilization additives. Colouring
additives. Borosilicate glasses. Silica glass. Technical glasses.
3. Metallic glasses. Quasicrystals. Metal glases properties. Metallic glasses
preparation methods from melt and gaseous phase.
4. Technical ceramics. Silicon oxide and aluminium oxide and their mixtures.
Corundum, dinas, mullite, caolinite.
5. Structural ceramics. Methods of prosity decreasing. CIP a HIP Micropowders.
Basic types of oxide and oxygen-free ceramics.
6. Mechanical properties of glass and ceramics. Cracks in ceramics and their
importance. Derivation of Weibull`s distribution and its practical results. Mechanical
testing of brittle materials.
7. Carbon and its modifications. Graphite. Diamond. Equilibrium diagram of carbon.
Special modification of carbon – fullerene. High temperature application of graphite.
8. Polymers in solid phasis, structure of polymer chain – chemical and molecular
architecture, hierarchy of polymer structure, glass transition.
9. Morphology of polymers, survey of experimental techniques, monocrystals,
lamellar crystals, chain assembling, aggregates of monocrystals, axialites, hedrites,
crystals with straightened chains, crystallization at orientation, spherolites, morfology
of amorphous polymers.
10. Polymer mixtures, morphology influencying by fabrication, morphology effect on
polymer properties.
11. Microscopy techniques for polymers – light microscopy, electron microscopy,
atomic force microscopy, enviromental scannning electron microscopy, object
selection for microscopic characterization, sample preparation.
12. Physical properties of plastics. Viscoelastic behaviour and its models. Rigidity
and strength of plastics.
13. Chemical resistance of plastics. Polar and unpolar surfaces. Resistance in the
atmosphere. Plastics properties modifiers.
14. Biopolymers and biocomposites.
SEMINARS
1. Introductory seminar – content and organizing of seminars and conditions for
credit obtaining.
2. Inorganic non-metallic materials.
3. Natural materials.
4.
Nanostructure materials.
5. Excursion.
6. Excursion.
7. Polymers – basic survey.
8. Plastics additives, binding media.
9. Basic types of polymers, their determination.
10. Basic of polymers fabrication.
11. Evaluation of mechanical properties of polymers.
12. Plastics resistance against degradation and ageing.
13. Plastics recycling.
14. Credits.
LITERATURE:
MÍŠEK, B.: Polymery, keramika, kompozity [Polymers, ceramics, composites].
Skripta VUT Brno 1993
JAYATILAKA, A.S.: Fracture of Engineering Brittle Materials.
Appl. Science Publishers, London 1979.
HOLZMÜLLER, W., ALTENBURG, K.: Fyzika polymerů [Physics of polymers].
SNTL 1966.
C R E D I T:
Active presence at seminars.
E X A M:
Exam is oral, credit is required.
The sylabus can be found at the URL: http://www.kmt.tul.cz