Course detail

Aircraft Materials and Technology

FSI-OLR-AAcad. year: 2021/2022

Relationships between compositions,processing effects, microstructures,properties and typical applications of selected aircraft materials. Special material requirements. Aluminium alloys, magnesium alloys, titanium alloys, high strength steels, nickel-base and cobalt-base superalloys, fibre and particle composites, nanocomposites and smart systems, structural polymers,structural ceramics, wood and plywood for aircraft structures. New research and development, international material standards and equivalents.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Miloslav Petrásek, CSc.

Department

Institute of Aerospace Engineering (LÚ)

Offered to foreign students

The home faculty only

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course Aircraft Materials makes students familiar with representative aircraft structural materials as well as with their optimal use. Students will be able to evaluate different material variants of aircraft structures according their strength, lifetime and damage tolerance.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of relations between composition, processing, structure and properties of structural materials. Basic terminology of physical metallurgy and material limit states.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures. Teaching is suplemented by practical laboratory work.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The course-unit credit requirements: 90% attendance at seminars. It is also necessary to submit completed and sophisticated computational exercises. Obtaining the credit is a condition for admission to the exam. The exam is written.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course Aircraft Materials is to inform students of present state in the area of structural materials for aircraft structures and to provide them with methodical and objective knowledge.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance at seminars is compulsory. In case of justified absence, the missed seminar may be compensated with an individual assignment. Continuous checking is made by means of written tests. In case of a failure, it is required to repeat the test.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

ASM Handbook Vol. 01 Properties and Selection: Irons, Steels and High Performance Alloys
ASM Handbook, Vol. 02 Properties nad Selection of Nonferrous Alloys
ASM Handbook, Volume 21, Composites, ASM International, 2002
Cenek,M.-Jeníček,L.: Nauka o materiálu I,3. svazek, Neželezné kovy,Academia,Praha 1973
F.C.Campbell: Manufacturing Technology for Aerospace Structural Materials. Elsevier, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1-85-617495-4. (EN)
Hussey B., Wilson J.: Light Alloys. Directory and databook. Chapman&Hall, 1998
Middleton,D.H.: Composite materials in aircraft structures,Longman Group, 1990
Michna a kol.: Encyklopedie hliníku
Vlot A., Gunnink J. W.: Fibre Metal Laminates, ISBN 1-4020-0038-3

Recommended reading

Baker, A.: Composite materials for aircraft structures, AIAA 2004
Michna, Š. a kol.: Encyklopedie hliníku, Prešov 2005, ISBN 80-89041-88-4
Ustohal,V.: Letecké materiály,VUT Brno,1988

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-AST-A Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme M2E-A Master's

    branch M-IND , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-ENG-Z Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, recommended course
    1 year of study, winter semester, recommended course

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Václav Tříska

Syllabus

1.Aircraft materials and strength conceptions
2.Characteristics of aluminium alloys for aircraft structures. Standards
3.Wrought aluminium alloys. Properties, application, heat treatment
4.Casting aluminium alloys for aircraft structures. Properties, application, heat treatment
5.Magnesium alloys for aircraft structures
6.Titanium alloys for aircraft structures
7.Typical aircraft steels
8.High temperature materials. Nickel alloys, cobalt alloys
9.Fibre reinforced composite materials.
10.Discoutinously reinforced composite materials.Ceramics and ceramic composites.
11. Nanocomposites and smart systems.
12.Structural plastics for aircraft structures. Sandwich materials.
13.Wood and plywood for light aeroplanes

Laboratory exercise

2 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Miloslav Petrásek, CSc.

Syllabus

12.Testing of aluminium alloys
13.Comparison between properties of metals and composites

Exercise

11 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Tomáš Katrňák

Syllabus

1.Standardization of aircraft materials
2.Standards of aluminium alloys
3.Choice of material for given airframe component
4.Relationship between microstructure and properties - DAS.
5.Test No 1
6.Design of airframe structure from Mg alloy
7.Schaeffler diagram of high alloy steels
8.Test No 2
9.Properties of high temperature alloys
10.Properties of wood for light aeroplanes
11.Test No 3

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course