Designing Materials with Aerospace Specific Properties

In this course the students will learn about fundamental relationships between material structure/composition and behavior in aerospace relevant environments.

Rather than memorizing known routes to reach certain materials properties, the students will be trained to translate these desired properties into material structures and microstructures so that the relation between material design and material behavior is understood.

The course is divided in 7 lectures using the principle of reverse engineering. All lectures follow the relation between material design in an aerospace context. Three lectures cover basic design rules of different material classes and their behavior: metals, polymers, ceramics. Three lectures cover material behavior in aerospace environments and the design aspects that explain performance and durability: materials at cryogenic temperatures, materials for temperature management, materials in aggressive environments. A last lecture deals with strategies to extend material life through the use of damage management concepts (self-healing materials):

-Tailoring polymer properties

-Tailoring metal properties

-Tailoring ceramic properties

-Design for environmental degradation resistance

-Design for temperature management

-Design for cryogenic temperatures

-Design for damage management

The students are highly recommended to attend ALL lectures given the style of teaching.

The students will need to deliver a group report (assignment). For this they will get a set of questions they need to solve by searching for information in existing literature.