Selection and Behaviour of Materials in Exploitation

1. Analyze the states of damage and wear on the material appeared during exploitation and identify their causes.
2. Define tribological wear processes, ie processes of mechanical, thermal and chemical action that occur in real conditions of application.
3. Apply and select appropriate methods for damage analysis and assess the durability of the structure.
4. Define the requirements of material for specific application conditions for different forms of mechanical stress, operating temperature, forms of wear and corrosion.
5. Apply different quantitative methods of material selection and optimization.
6. Use software packages and online databases to select the optimal material.

Lectures in the classroom and on-line.

Exercises in the laboratory at the faculty (FSB)

Combined e-learning

In an overhauling workshop

There are no seminar papers

1. Introduction to the behavior of materials in the exploatation and the basic causes of failures and damage. Features of exploitation conditions of military combat and non-combat equipment.
2. Causes of wear and damage of structural parts and materials used to fabricate selected combat and non-combat technical systems.
3. Analysis procedure of wear and damage. Basics of fractography. Macro and micro fracture surface analysis.
4. Failure of the function of machine parts and parts of combat and non-combat technical systems due to material fatigue and increased and high operating temperatures.
5. Failure of the function of machine parts and parts of combat and non-combat technical systems due to corrosion and various wear mechanisms.
6. Maintenance of military systems as a prevention of the wear and damage development. Methods for estimating the service life of parts and systems.
7. 1st colloquium
8. Requirements on the product and material. Material selection criteria: functionality and manufacturability of military equipment systems.
9. Material selection criteria: cost, standardization, availability, aesthetics, environmental acceptability.
10. Relevant properties, parameters and material quality features of the military equipment components.
11. Quantitative methods of the material selection and optimization.
12. Graphic maps of material properties (Ashby method).
13. Computer-aided material selection systems: online information and CAMS (Computer aided Materials Selection) systems.
14. The choice of technological processes for selected types of materials.
15. 2nd colloquium