Aerospace Materials II

Engineering & Social Sciences Program
Madrid, Spain

Dates: mid Jan 2026 - early Jun 2026

Engineering & Social Sciences

Aerospace Materials II

Aerospace Materials II Course Overview

OVERVIEW

CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Aerospace Engineering
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 15338
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: Aerospace Materials I

DESCRIPTION

- Solidification of Metals. Generation of the Microstructure. Metal Casting Processes. Cast Structures
Defects in Castings.
- Metal forming processes. Work hardening. Recovery, Recrystallization and Grain Growth. Effect of metal forming processes on properties and microstructure. Formability.
-Phase Diagrams. Invariant Reactions. Influence of alloying elements. Equilibrium phase transformation.
- Non-equilibrium phase transformations. TTT diagrams: ITT and CCT. Heat Treatments: Quenching, Tempering, Annealing, Normalizing. Hardenability
-Introduction to Fracture. Types of Fracture. Fracture modes. Fracture mechanics. Stress concentration. Griffiths theory. Stress intensity factor. Fracture toughness and Impact test. Brittle Ductile transition.
- Introduction to Fatigue. High cycle fatigue. Low cycle fatigue. Effect of variable cycles. Fatigue crack growth.Structural features of fatigue. Designing against fatigue failure
-Creep. Creep curve. Effect of stress and temperature on creep. Creep stages. Creep design and life prediction. Developing creep-resistant materials.
- Corrosion. Basic electrochemical corrosion. Types of corrosion. Corrosion control and prevention. High temperature corrosion.
- Friction. Wear. Friction and wear tests. Lubricants. Wear and friction in metal-working processes. Materials selection for tribological system.
- Designation of Aluminium Alloys. Heat treatable aluminium alloys. Non heat treatable aluminium alloy. Applications of Al alloys in aerospace. Mg alloys.
- Designation of Titanium alloys. Properties of Ti alloys. Heat Treatments for Ti alloys. Applications.
- Ultra high strength steels. PH stainless steels. Maraging Steels.
- Ni-based alloys and superalloys. Properties and applications.
- Intermetallics in aerospace. Properties and applications.
- Main surface treatments: Galvanizing; Electrodepostion; Organic Coatings; CVD; PVD: Thermal Spraying. Thermochemical Treatments. Thermal Barrier Coatings.
- Introduction to joining processes. Welding. Welding processes for aerospace applications.
- Common NDT method. Visual Inspection. Liquid Penetrants. Magnetic Particle. Eddy Current. Radiographic. Ultrasonic Acoustic Emissions. Method comparison.


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