MH1031 Ceramic Materials 8.0 credits
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Application
For course offering
Spring 2024 Start 18 Mar 2024 programme students
Application code
60256
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
The basics of making both traditional and advanced ceramics;crystal structures and bondings of ceramic materials;defects;melting point, surface energy;diffusion, electrical and thermal conduction;glass formation;mechanical properties and fractography;statistical fracture theories;time-dependent fracture;toughening mechanisms;thermal shock.
Intended learning outcomes
After passing the course, the student should be able to:
- Give examples of, and explain structures of ceramics
- Give examples of, and explain important physical and thermal properties of ceramics.
- Describe the most important defects in ceramics and write down defective reactions.
- Explain diffusion, electrical and thermal conduction in ceramics.
- Describe glass, especially its formation, structure and properties.
- Explain the preparation, especially powder synthesis, powder characterization, shaping and sintering, of ceramics.
- Explain and perform calculations on the mechanical properties of ceramics
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
MH1030 Materials Design I or equivalent
Recommended prerequisites
Equipment
Literature
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- LAB1 - Laboratory work, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- TEN1 - Written exam, 6.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.