Goals: physical properties of new materials. The following classes of materials will be presented: electronic materials and their electrical properties, thermal conductors and insulators, thermo-electrical materials, magnetic materials, superconductors, quasi-crystals, materials for optical applications, micro- and nanotubes and wires, carbon-based materials, materials for storing hydrogen.
Goals: acquiring knowledge needed for development of integral and deepened computer models for analysing processes that occur in materials at various space and time scales during mechanical, thermal, electromagnetic and chemical loads and that occur during testing, manufacturing and use of materials. Constitutive modelling of materials, methods for making non-linear problems discrete in space and ... Read more
Goals: deepen knowledge on elastomechanics of materials. The following chapters will be presented: mathematical fundamentals of linear theory of elasticity, elasticity of isotropic and anisotropic materials, plastic deformation, theory of dislocations, viscoelasticity, elastic instabilities, nonlinear elasticity.
Goals: acquiring experimental methods for microscopic examination of materials. The following methods will be presented: scanning electron microscope (SEM) and microanalysis, transmission electron microscope (TEM), surface methods – scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) and Auger emission spectroscopy (AES).
Goals: acquiring knowledge on spectroscopic experimental methods for examining materials. The following methods will be discussed: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), gamma-ray spectroscopy, spectroscopy with positrons and mions, neutron scattering, spectroscopy with atoms and ions, magnetometry (SQUID), measurements of transport phenomena in substances.
Goals: to introduce basic physical and chemical processes that occur on surfaces of solids and are important for material properties, technological applications and development of new advanced technologies. Topics: physico-chemical fundamentals of vacuum engineering with emphasis on high and ultrahigh vacuum; learning that free surfaces of solids have internal boundaries and thin layers that have different ... Read more
This course is intended for postgraduate students and presents all the essential physico-metallurgical parameters and rules that influence and determine the structure of multi-component alloy systems. It gives basic characteristics and rules that are valid for binary alloy systems and are upgraded to ternary, quaternary and multi-component alloy systems. It enables understanding of how during ... Read more
Goals: to deepen knowledge on the phenomena related to metallic materials. The most important ones are phase transformation in solid state and deformation hardening. Detailed knowledge of these phenomena is essential from a practical viewpoint as well as particularly in designing and control and working processes of various metallic materials. The fundamentals of this course ... Read more
The course provides an overview of methods for determining crystal and molecular structure of crystalline substances, primarily by X-ray structural analysis. Growth of real crystals is related to the appearance of point (atomic and electron) defects. Knowledge on equilibrium of defects helps to explain many properties of non-ideal crystalline substances.
Goals: to deepen knowledge about thermodynamics and phase transformations in materials. The following topics will be discussed: thermodynamics of pure substances, thermodynamics of solutions, free energy and phase diagrams of binary systems, thermodynamics of surfaces and small systems, heterophase and homophase fluctuations, thermodynamics of defects, diffusion, kinetics of nucleation and growth and morphological instability.