Materials Technology

Engineering materials and their properties, price and availability. Elastic and plastic properties quantified by E-modulus, yield, ultimate strength, ductility and fracture toughness. Elastic deformation, plastic collapse, fast fracture. Fatigue and creep in simple structures. Corrosion and corrosion protection. Engineering properties of steel and aluminium, polymers and composites explained in terms of their stucture.

Knowledge:
The candidate will get knowledge of:
- The fundamentals about: metallic materials, ceramics, polymers and composites.
- Relationships between materials structures and properties.
- Manufacturing, processing and fabrication of materials.
- Properties and performance of materials in different environments.
- The principals for rational selection of materials.

Skills:
The candidate will be skilled on:
- Selecting materials for specific applications.
- Determine materials microstructures to produce predetermined set of properties.
- Predict materials behavior for different products and structures.

General competence:
The candidate will get competence on:
- The use of different materials to meet particular specifications for a wide variety of industrial applications.
- Design and selection of materials for specific applications.

Lectures, exercises and laboratory work. The teaching is to a high degree based on exercises carried out as group work. The students be divided into groups of four students at semester start and the group will jointly carry out the laboratory work. The exercises will be reported individually. If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.