Technology of Materials

- Knowledge about the basic mechanism of electrochemical deterioration of surfaces: aqueous corrosion and corrosion in hot gases. - Ability to interpret the results of the most common corrosion tests. - Knowledge about the advantages and limitations of the techniques and technologies most used to protect the surfaces and improve their properties.

Surface Engineering Course 23/24 Topic 1: Corrosion cells and importance of oxides Topic 2: Corrosion in hot gases Topic 3: Thermodynamics of aqueous corrosion Topic 4: Generalized corrosion and distribution of anodes Topic 5: Localized corrosion Topic 6: Corrosion determined by metallurgy or assisted by physical efforts Topic 7: Corrosion tests Topic 8: Types of coatings Topic 9: Surface preparation Topic 10: Conversion coatings Topic 11: Metallic coatings by electrodeposition Topic 12: Metallic coatings by chemical deposition Topic 13: Deposition of thin layers: PVD and CVD Topic 14: Thermal Spray Coatings Topic 15: Mertallic inmersion coatings

Throughout the fourteen weeks of class, six evaluable exercises will be proposed that students must solve to delve into the content taught during the face-to-face sessions. Students will have 8 days to solve the exercises. These will be published in Aula Global immediately after the delivery of the following face-to-face sessions: - Exercise 1: session 2 - Exercise 2: session 4 - Exercise 3: session 9 - Exercise 4: session 11 Students must attend two laboratory sessions, obtain the experimental data and complete the corresponding scripts in small groups. The laboratory sessions will have to arrive within the class schedule and on the following dates - Session 11 - Session 12 There will be three multiple choice questionnaires during the classes. The questionnaires will be face-to-face, in the classroom, at the beginning of the session. They wil take place during the 7th and 15th sesions. Students may request by email all those tutorials (individual or in small groups) that they believe are necessary to properly assimilate the concepts taught in class.