Functionally Graded Materials

Teaching Methods

The unit is formed by a series of lectures given by the teachers, to be complemented by a number of research assignments, presentations and experimental tasks to be performed by the students.

Evaluation consists in a final exam, in conjunction with the grades gathered by the students for the successful achievement of the different assignments.

Learning Outcomes

The Unit must confront the student with the field of FGM, and provide awareness concerning larger issue of heterogeneity as an asset for material and component design.

The student should understand:

-FGM concept;

-advantages in different technological fields;

-different routes for FGM fabrication;

-main physical and chemical characteristics;

-main techniques and procedures used for FGM design and characterization;

-examples of FGM application;

The student should be able to:

-conceive situations able to generate controlled material’s heterogeneity;

-elaborate a simple predictive model of FGM to be fabricated;

-fabricate an FGM via either an additive or a mass transfer process;

-characterize FGM’s in terms of their microstructural, mechanical, tribological and chemical stability behaviour.

Finally, the student should know:

-the potential offered by non-conventional solutions to technological challenges;

-adapt relevant experimental techniques to intrinsically heterogeneous materials.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to Functionally Graded Materials (FGM)

2. Fabrication Techniques

3. Structural and functional characterization of FGM;

4. Modelling of FGM.

Assessment Methods

Avaliação
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

- S. Suresh, A. Mortensen, “Fundamentals of Functionally Graded Materials”, ed. The Institute of Material (1998);