The lectures deals with the mechanisms of degradation from the point of view of corrosion attack and the influence of the combination of increased temperature and mechanical stress, and subsequently through the characteristics of material properties with specific materials applicable to the given area of ​​degradation.

1. Principle and mechanisms of corrosion, corrosion in non-conductive environments
2. Creep-resistant materials
3. Corrosion in electrically conductive environments, polarization curves, types of corrosion attack
4.Atmospheric corrosion, steels with resistance to atmospheric corrosion
5.Chromium martensitic and supermartensitic steels, ferritic and superferritic steels,
6. Austenitic and superaustenitic steels
7.Duplex corrosion resistant steels, martensitic-austenitic and SAF, new types of corrosion resistant steels
8.Alloys of nickel, cobalt and Ti, their use, non-metallic corrosion-resistant materials
9. Corrosion resistance tests
10. Properties of materials used in power industry. Creep resistance, brittle fracture, corrosion and radiation resistance, wear.
11. Blade and rotor materials of steam turbines. Steels for turbogenerator components. Boiler materials, superheater pipes and steam lines.
12. Materials for water turbine components.
13.Materials for selected components of nuclear power plants - fuel cells, pressure vessel, primary pipelines, steam generators, circulation pumps, secondary pipelines, spent fuel containers.

1.Creep resistance of ferritic and austenitic steels
2.Kinetics of atmospheric corrosion, life-time evaluation
3.Calculation of mechanical-corrosion strength
4.Application of Schaffler diagram
5.Lifetime of creep-resistant materials, LM parameter
6.Final test

[1] BRUMOVSKY, M. Materials used for the design and contruction of WWER comonents, INR 2006

Submission of tasks from exercises in appropriate quality.

Passing the final test