SLO/BTM2

Course: Technical Materials and Technology 2

Department/Abbreviation: SLO/BTM2

Year: 2011 2012

Guarantee: 'RNDr. Petr Schovánek'

Annotation: To learn modern nonmetallic materials. Orientation in basic methods of surfaces manufacturing and surface quality. Some modern measurement methods for material engineering.

Course review:

• Surfaces
  • Structure of surfaces
  • Methods of measurement and checking
  • Technologies of surface treatments (milling operation, edging, polishing)
  • Protection of surfaces
  
  
  
• Non-metallic materials
  • Inorganic materials - optical and technical glass, ceramics, minerals
  • Organic materials, polymers
  • Composite and sintered materials
  • Abrasive materials - free abrasive and polishers, tools with bounded diamond
  
  
  
• Selected modern technologies
  • Technological lasers
  • Industrial laser applications - laser drilling, cutting, welding, labeling, cladding, quenching
  • Technologies of material treatment with water beam
  • Thin layers, technologies of deposition of thin layers
  • Optical thin layers, their properties and technical usage
  • Technologies of production of ultrathin mirrors
  • Methods of study of structures and their usage in the material science
  • Contact measurements - T&H roughness-meter
  • Optical microscopy - construction of optical microscope, basics of metallography, preparation of planar scratch patterns, methods of visualization of structures, basics of fracture mechanics
  • X-ray diffraction analysis
  • Electron microscopy - transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), preparation of samples
  • Spectroscopy of Auger electrons
  • Scanning probe microscopy - scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), atomic force microscopy (AFM)
  • Laser microscopy