Enrollment in the current school year.
Industrial materials
Danilo Suvorov
Matjaž Spreitzer
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Introductions. Materials in technique. Basic groups of materials. Characteristic properties of materials. Criteria for material selection. Perspectives in material development.
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Interatomic bonds and structure of matter. Material properties according to the bond type, strength and crystal structure. Properties of crystal structures. Nomenclature. Molecular structures.
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Phase equilibrium. Phase rules. Binary and ternary phase diagrams. Diagram Fe-C. Stable and metastable structures.
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Metals. Influence of composition and technology on metal properties. Mechanisms and techniques of strengthening of alloys. Influence of defects. Tempering and relaxation of steel.
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Polymers and co-polymers. Degree of polymerization, mole mass, tactics, ramification, entanglement, crystallinity, amorphism. Temperature of glass transition. Strengthening of polymers. Creeping. Bonding materials, glues, coatings, composites, mixtures, alloys.
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Ceramics. General properties. Structure of silicate ceramics. Classical and modern technical ceramics.
Fragile breaking and strengthening of ceramics. Functional and engineering ceramics. -
Glass. Composition and properties. Glass formers and glass modification. Viscosity and deformation of glass. Glazes and enamels.
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Composites. Principles of material strengthening.
Polymers/glass fibers. -
Cements and concrete. Cement materials. Coagulation processes and concrete properties.
Modified and strengthened cements. -
Decay of materials. Principles of corrosion. High-temperature decay. Principles of material protection.
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Nanomaterials.
W. Wosnizok, Werkstoffe (Kurz u übersichtlich), VEB DVG, Leipzig, 1984.
W.F. Smith, Principles of Materials Science & Engineering, 2nd Ed., McGraw Hill, New York, 1990.
P. Glavić, Gradiva, Tehniška fakulteta Maribor, 1990.
Knowledge and understanding of basic properties of materials.
Knowledge and understanding:
Selection of materials in construction work, knowledge of properties of products made of different materials.
Lectures, tutorials, demonstration experiments.
Written exam
[1] A. Vorobiev, M. Spreitzer, A. Veber, D. Suvorov, S. Gevorgian, Intrinsically tunable bulk acoustic wave resonators based on sol-gel grown PMN-PT films. Journal of applied physics 116 (2014) 064101-1-064101-8.
[2] D. Klement, M. Spreitzer, D. Suvorov, Suppressed temperature dependence of the resonant frequencyof a AgNbsubTasubO[sub]3 composite vs. single-phase ceramics. Journal of the European ceramic society 34 (2014) 1537-1545.
[3] Lei Li, M. Spreitzer, D. Suvorov, Unique dielectric tunability of Ag(NbsubTa[sub]x)O[sub]3 (x=0-0.5) ceramics with ferrielectric polar order, Applied physics letters 104 (2014) 182902-1-182902-5.