The presented thesis deals with further development of small sized specimens techniques for mechanical properties assessment. These tests are being applied for cases when there is shortage of the experimental materials (new materials development, severe plastic deformation processes, residual service&...

Advancement in optical telecommunications and optical computing devices has increased the demand for materials with greater optical coefficients. For that reason, several materials with suitable optical properties have been designed, some of which are based on the family of quaternary chalcogenid...

Corrosion resistance is one of the main parameters determining the properties of every material in surface engineering. To protect components working in corrosive-aggressive environments, new corrosion resistant materials are being developed and simultaneously with this research, also new protective c...

The thesis deals with research on the risks of dissimilar metal weld joints at the nuclear power plants and the development of qualified repair procedures. The thesis specifically focuses on the dissimilar metal weld joint no. 23 of the primary collectors of steam generators a...

The subject of the work are thin films of amorphous hydrogenated silicon (a-Si:H) used as an absorber film in photovoltaic cells of II. generation. The films were prepared by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) from silane diluted with hydrogen. Dilution R determines ...

This thesis concerns the recristallization behaviour of thermomechanically treated steels. The introduction covers non-conventional treatmens for improving mechanical properties. It especially deals with steel processing of stable and metastable austenite.

This work is focused on the evaluation of thermally sprayed coatings of materials which have high potential for their use for surface protection of exposed components which are working in service conditions, combining heat and corrosive effects of steam. These effects may result to...

This work deals with a study of surface morphology and optical properties of transparent conductive oxides. The optically transparent and electrically conductive oxides (TCO) are binary, ternary of multi-component compounds of at least one metal element, which have wide range of application&...

This work is motivated by applications of ZnO thin films as a top electrode and back reflector in thin-film solar cells and the need of the light scattering improvement to increase the thin-film solar cells performance. The research presented in this thesis has been particular...

Submitted thesis deals with the development and testing of composite galvanic coatings for piston rings. The literature search in the introduction was focused on the issue of chromium coatings for piston rings and their testing. There were also mentioned previously realized experiments ...

The work deals with a high-temperature phase transformation study of zirconium alloy on the basis of Zr-Nb with the use of "in situ" X-ray diffraction methods. Due to physical, mechanical and chemical properties are these materials used as cladding materials for nuclear fuel&#...

The alloys of FeNi and the optimization of the production technology was the object of the dissertation. The reduction of the production scrap and the improvement of the utilisation of charging stock (the price creates 60% from total cost) was the main aim of this work.&#...

This disertation thesis describes Small Punch test method (SP test) as well as acoustic emission (AE). SP test method belongs to the group of so called semi-destructive methods which involves careful removal of minimal amount of testing material without the need of additional repai...

Thanks to innovative processing sequences, even conventional materials which have been around for years can be treated so that novel and unconventional microstructures with specific mechanical and physical properties are obtained. This also holds for semi-solid forming, which is a dynamically...

Current efforts to boost competitiveness and reduce time and energy demands in production lead to improved efficiency of existing processes and technologies. Carbide spheroidisation is a very time-consuming and energy-intensive process due to its underlying diffusion mechanism. The present dissertatio...

This work is aimed to evaluation of mechanical-physical properties of HP/HVOF thermally sprayed hardmetal coatings in dependence on coatings microstructure. Primary interest was devoted to WC-Cr3C2-Ni coating. The main aim of this work was to find relationship between the type of powder...

The present work deals with the evaluation of properties of wear resistant thin TiAlSiN films deposited on cold work tool steels. Thin hard films, particularly transition metal nitrides are extensively used in industry for different kind of tools, moulds and various mechanical parts...

This thesis deals with the determination of empirical correlations between mechanical characteristics obtained using standard mechanical testing and miniature testing techniques. Miniature testing techniques enable to measure the characteristic mechanical properties of structure materials using a small amount&#...

The Dissertation Work is devoted to metallurgy-technological aspects of aluminium alloys joining with steel. The Work provides a comprehensive view of currently solved problem area to create those heterogeneous joints and puts it into connection with analysis of their characteristics. An ext...

This dissertation results from the modern trends observable not only in power engineering but in industry in general. One of these trends is, among others, efforts to make existing diagnostic methods more effective, or eventually discovering new processes, which could contribute to...