Course content

Engieering materials and their properties: Material cost. Modulus of elasticitry, strength, yield strength, hardness and ductility. Fracture mechanics and fatigue. Creep and creep fracture. Microstructures and phase diagrammes. Specialisation regarding metals: Carbon steel, steel alloys and light weight alloys. Heat treatment and strengthening mechanisms. Corrosion of metals. Welding of metals. Polymeric materials and composites: Structure and mechanical properties.

Learning outcome

The aim of the course is to give the students fundamentals about: metallic materials, polymers and composites. The emphasis will be foucused upon the dependence of material properties resulting from atomic packing, molecular and micro structure. The students should also learn the principals for rational selecton of materials.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, exercises, cases 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 and the two Case studies. The exercises will be reported individually. If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises and teamwork

Recommended previous knowledge

Course TKT4116 Mechanics 1, TKT4122 Mechanics 2 and TMT4106 Chemistry.

Course materials

Ashby og Jones: Engineering materials 1 - 3rd Ed., Ashby og Jones: Engineering materials 2 - 3rd Ed.

Credit reductions