After successful completion of the course, students are able to understand materials technology-related process in steel. They are capable of understanding the relation between microstructure of poly-crystalline materials and the resulting mechanical-technological properties (strength, toughness etc.). They have acquired knowledge on classical methods of thermal and mechanical treatment of the metallic microstructure of steel and to designe steels with requested mechanical properties. They are capable of understanding the classical production routes of steel.
Iron-Carbon system (phase diagram, effect of alloying elements, types of iron-base alloys, ...); microstructure-property relationship; possibilities of microstructural transformations (transformation hardening, heat treatments, recrystallization, recovery, ...); steel production
