Lightweight construction
- Structural lightweight construction
- Lightweight material construction
- Selection criteria for lightweight metallic materials
Steel as a lightweight material
- Introduction to steels
- Modern steels for lightweight construction:
- Fine-grained steels
- High-strength low-alloy steels
- Multiphase steels (dual-phase, TRIP)
- Weldability
- Application examples
Aluminium alloys:
- Introduction to the fundamentals of aluminium materials
- Alloy systems
- Non-age-hardenable Al alloys:
Processing and microstructure, mechanical properties and applications
- Age-hardenable Al alloys:
Processing and microstructure, mechanical properties and applications
Magnesium alloys
- Introduction to the fundamentals of magnesium materials
- Alloy systems
- Magnesium cast alloys, processing, microstructure and properties
- Wrought magnesium alloys, processing, microstructure and properties
- Application examples
Titanium alloys
- Introduction to the basics of titanium materials
- Alloy systems
- Processing, microstructure and properties
- Application examples
Metal Matrix Composites
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