Goals: designing, technological characterisation and manufacturing of materials – metallurgical product as final stage of the processing chain, i.e. from preparing materials, moulds and casting machines to processes of casting, controlled solidification and preparing materials for plastic working, hot and cold working, etc. to final thermomechanically controlled treatments in order to ensure target properties of ... Read more
Goals: acquiring theoretical principles of solidification of metals and alloys with emphasis on solidification parameters and morphology that influence the formation of micro- and macrostructures of cast materials. Additional stress will be given to solidification sequence and transformations in solid state that run in correlation with the ways of solidification and boundary conditions. By using in situ ... Read more
Goals: to prepare student for independent development of new basic innovative stages of processes to be able to transfer research results into applications and their commercialisation. PhD study is intended to stimulate new knowledge, therefore the objective of the course is to stimulate learning and to deepen the knowledge based on research and development and to ... Read more
Slags and fluxes are closely related to making new metallic materials, therefore they need to have such metallurgical properties that ensure the undisturbed course of single reactions and processes. Development and properties must be harmonised with sustainable development and environmental protection issues. The main emphasis is given to research and development that allows for upgrading student ... Read more
Goals: acquiring in-depth knowledge on selected research areas of thermodynamics, process modelling and heterogeneous reaction kinetics of metallic and composed materials in equilibrium and non-equilibrium state; Modern laboratory and technological methods of examining heterogeneous equilibria (thermal analyses, determination of activities, etc.); Application of scientific results and research methods in processing previously mentioned materials (development of ... Read more
Goals: upgrading previous theoretical, methodological and experimental knowledge on designing, synthesis and characterisation of metallic materials. Contents: Designing materials with emphasis on mechanical properties; Realisation of hardening mechanisms; Alloying, fast solidification, phase transformations, heat and thermomechanical treatments; Modelling processes of heat and thermomechanical treatments; Computer evaluation and prediction of materials properties; Diffusion controlled processes; Powder metallurgy; ... Read more
Students will get acquainted with the principles in selecting suitable materials for making components and assemblies for various applications in chemical engineering and other engineering branches. Principles of selection will be substantiated with suitable (physical, chemical, mechanical, etc.) properties of materials, with given ‘intrinsic’ and microstructure- dependent and processing-dependent properties. Student will acquire adequate knowledge ... Read more
Goals: acquiring in-depth knowledge on the composition and structure of polymeric materials and polymeric composites and how the composition and structure influences materials properties; knowledge on mechanics of polymeric materials, modern techniques of determining chemical, physical and mechanical properties of polymeric materials with result interpretation, principles of designing polymeric materials and their composites and modelling ... Read more
Goals: acquiring knowledge on ceramics to understand the relations between structural properties and development of microstructure during sintering that determine the properties of ceramics (mechanical, electrical, optical, etc.). Students get acquainted with the structure and properties of ceramic materials, their physical and chemical properties and the technological processes of manufacturing. Further, students will learn the basic principles ... Read more
Goals: acquiring knowledge of materials at nanoscale level and understanding the differences in structure and properties of nanomaterials with other materials at micron- or higher level. Topics: perspectives of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, nanotools, methods of synthesis, physics of nanomaterials (properties and phenomena), chemistry of nanomaterials (synthesis and modification) and designing nanoequipment. Students will be acquainted with basic ... Read more