SUBJECT
Title
Materials physics II
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 3
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
Precipitation from supersaturated solid solutions: stability of the initial state, sharp and continuous transformations. Nucleation and growth. Interface energy, metastable phases. Spinodal decomposition, gradient energy. Mechanisms of plastic deformation of solids. Strengthening effects. Recovery and recrystallization. Diffusion-less phase transformations: structure changes, Martensitic transformation, shape memory effect. Nanostructured materials. Ceramics. Glasses. Polymers. Composites and functionally graded materials.
Readings
recommended readings:
- R. W. Cahn. P. Haasen: Physical metallurgy, Elsevier 1996
- J. W. Christian: The theory of transformations in metals and alloys, Pergamon 1975