SUBJECT

Systematics in materials science

lecture

master

Faculty of Science

Environmental Science MSc

3

Semester 4

Spring semester

Aims:

The Systematics in Materials Science course gives teaching on overview the materials used in everyday life, produced by nature and industry. It gives basic classifications, hierarchy levels of production, analysis and measurement technologies at various levels of organization hierarchy levels. It overviews the basic characteristics based on knowledge collected by using material maps of phases, by cooling, crystallization, tempering, alloying and various modern technologies. The course also gives overview how these materials are utilized in structures, construction. The systematics conatins 3 basic principles in overview: history of matter (evolution), structure and structure investigation of matter, and application of matters in various functions. It clears general principles used in describing technologies. It uses in several examples in the Material- Structure-Characteristics-Function chain thinking sequence.

Thematics backstone:

History of materials evolution. Natural materials: wood, bone, stone, ancient metals, industrial materials, ceramics, concrete, plastics, alloys, developed complex materials: composites, semiconductors, fine ceramics, technologies producing modern materials: metallurgy, powder metallurgy, production technologies of metals, industrial and construction materails. Measuring materail maps give overview how composition and technologies form the textural level of materials. Structures like: homogeneous, crystalline, polymeric and amorphous materials. Composite materials, Quasicrystalline materials, Polycrystalline materials. Mechanical, thermal, transport matrix characteristics. Structural levels of crystalline (elementary cell, symmetries) and structural tests and measurements (X-ray, electrondiffraction). optical microscopy, SEM).

• Michael E. McHenry (2012): Structure of Materials: An Introduction to Crystallography, Diffraction and Symmetry. Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (October 8, 2012)
• Callister W.D., Retwisch D.G. (2013): Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction. Wiley, 9. Edition
• Ashby, Michael; Hugh Shercliff; David Cebon (2007). Materials: engineering, science, processing and design (1st ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann