Capacity to address developments, projects and advanced studies in the field of materials engineering with a high degree of autonomy.

Find and select information, written and oral communication skills, writing report and projects, documentation management.

Lesson 1. Presentation and Introduction. Types of materials against mechanical behavior. Crystal structure. Elastic deformation and theoretical resistance. Non-crystalline structure. No elastic deformation.

Lesson 2. Structural Materials. Introduction to Physical Metallurgy. Hardening mechanisms metal alloys. Alloying and shaping materials.

Lesson 3. Iron-Carbide alloys . Diagrams, microstructures and thermal treatments.

Lesson 4. Steels and cast irons. Structural steels. Alloyed steels for strength, carburizing, nitriding. High-strength steels. Cast irons. Aluminum and titanium alloys. Non-ferrous metals.

Lesson 5. Polymeric and composite materials. Thermoplastics. Thermosets. Elastomers. Combining and modifying polymers.

Lesson 6. Ceramics and glasses. Ceramic materials. Concretes. Glasses. Refractories. Tribology.

Lesson 7. Fracture mechanics. Energy approach. Tensional approach and linear elastic fracture. Plane stress and plane strain. Anisotropic materials. Dimensional stress states. Fracture against plastification.

Lesson 8. Toughness tests. macro and microscopic aspects of fracture in materials. Mechanics of elastic-plastic fracture. CTOD. J integral. HRRFields.

Lesson 9. Fatigue of materials. Effects of cyclic loading. Fatigue tests. physical nature of fatigue damage. S-N curves. Design fatigue. Fatigue crack growth. Paris’ law.

Lesson 10. Creep and dissipation in materials. Creep tests. Physical mechanisms of creep. Creep crack growth. Estimate component life. Stress-strain-time curves. Energy dissipation in materials.

Lesson 11. Corrosion and corrosion resistant materials. Corrosion. Stress corrosion. Fatigue corrosion. Crack growth. Corrosion resistant materials.

In the theoretical classes, teachers give extensive explanations with the help of presentations. The book with all presentations will be available to students in the reprographic service of the university.

In the seminars, teaching will focus on specific topics that require additional exercises to encourage teamwork and participation of students with possible occasional debates. Thus, the theoretical knowledge of the subject is deepened in a more practical and applied manner.

In practical laboratory experimental work will be developed to acquire knowledge and skills of the experimental techniques used in materials science. Students must carry a laboratory notebook (available in reprographic service center). The notebook includes the description of the practice and some short questions for self-assessment.

In the case of minimum distances are established between students for health security, the practices will be organized in a delegated mode.

Supossing that it is not possible to carry out a face-to-face evaluation of the subject, the pertinent changes will be made to carry out an online evaluation using the existing IT tools at the UPV / EHU. The characteristics of this online evaluation will be published on eGela.

- Written exam of the theory and exercises: 55% of the final mark.

Degree of use of the lessons practical exercises develop during lectures. Evaluation of the students autonomy ability.

-Preparation, written report and oral defense: 35% of the final mark

Evaluation of comprehensive ability to use theoretical and practical knowledge for solving open problems on materials.

Evaluation of the ability to work in teams making proposals, analyzing contributions of others, discussing ideas and implementing appropriate action. Interpersonal skills.

-Laboratory practice report: 10% of the final mark

Evaluation of knowledge communication skills both by written and oral. Evaluation of the laboratory practices use.

If the student is not presented to the exam, by default it will be consider that the student express its resignation.

Power point of the lessons.
Problem and exercises book.

Basic bibliography

- Arana, J.L., González, J.J., Mecánica de la fractura, Ediciones UPV-EHU (2001)

- Deformation and Fracture Mechanics of engineering Materials, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2013)

- Dowling N.E., Mechanical Behaviour of Materials. Prentice-Hall (1999)

- Ashby Michael F., Jones David R.H., Engineering Materials 2 Butterworth-Heinemann (2004)

- R.W.K. Honeycombe and H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia, Steels: Microestructure and Properties, 2nd edition, Arnold, 1995.

- Meyers M.A., Chawla K.K. (1984), Mechanical Metallurgy, Principles and Applications. Prentice-Hall

- Crawford R.J., Plastics Engineering, (third edition 1999)

- J. Polmear, Light Alloys: Metallurgy of the Light Metals, 3rd edition, Arnold, 1995

- C. Leyens and M.Peters,Titanium and Titanium Alloys, Fundamentals and Applications, Wiley-VCH GmbH and Co. (2003)

- Dieter, G.E. (1991) “Engineering Design, A Materials and Processing Approach”, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, USA. ISBN 0-07-100829-2.

In-depth bibliography

-Anderson, T.L., Fracture Mechanics, Fundamentals and Applications. CRC press (1995)
- Barson, J.M., Rolfe, S.T., Fracture and Fatigue Control in Structures, Applications of Fracture Mechanics, Buttterworth-Heinemann (1999)
- Broek D. The Practical Use of Fracture Mechanics. Kluber Academic Publishers (1989)
- Kinloch A.J., Young R.J. Fracture Behaviour of Polymers. Elsevier (1990)
- Lampman S.R. ASM Handbook. Volume 19. Fatigue and Fracture. ASM Internacional. (1996)
- M.J. Donachie, Superalloys: a Technical Guide, 2nd edittion, ASM International, (2002)
- M.Avedesian and H. Baker, Magnesium and Magnesium Alloys, ASM International, (1999)

Journals

- International Journal of Plasticity
- Scripta Materialia
- Materials and Design