Centre for Research and Development of Materials and Technologies

Member Institutes and their brief characteristics

"Centre" forms a part of the Czech Society for New Materials and Technologies. It was established to provide all possible support for research in the area of new materials and technologies. The Centre activities are focussed especially on:

  1. Information support for research and study programmes and projects of institutes and universities in the form of creating and making accessible databases about research and development units, programmes and projects under solution, results of such programmes and projects, available financial resources to support research and development, available instruments, facilities and places for study - or work-oriented stays and research development units;
  2. counselling and consultancy activities for researchers and users;
  3. establishing and developing contacts between research and development units (inclusive universities) and users (industries, services);
  4. counselling and coordination activities for the respective authorities when preparing fundamental documents concerning the research and development of new materials and technologies as well as the system of research and development in the Czech Republic as such;
  5. establishing and developing contacts with foreign institutions of a similar type as the Centre;
  6. aiding, trough information, mediation and coordination, Czech and foreign partners to establish contacts.

 

Member Activities
SVÚM, PRAGUE
  • accredited labs from Czech Institute for Accreditation according to CSN EN ISO/IEC Standard 17025, Certificate from GE Aircraft Engines:
  • mechanical testing, low and high cycle testing, crack propagation, metalography
  • creep tests and stress rupture tests
  • high temperature corrosion
  • tribological testing
  • corrosion resistant coating by PTFE, DELTA MKS and special technologies
  • PTFE and teflon products
  • Self lubricated bearing foil METALOPLAST
  • Production of high performance permanent magnets
Web page:
http//www.svum.cz
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University Liberec
  • Characterization of metals and non-metallic materials (composites, intermetalics)
  • Surface Engineering - coatings nanolayers, RF PVD deposition, diamond-like carbon (DLC), nanocrystalline diamond (NCD), TiO2 layers
  • Testing.of properties thin layers (biocompatibility (endo-prosthesis), barrier coatings - thermal and wear resistant, tribological properties,
  • TD (non destructive testing)
Web page:
www.kmt.vslib.cz
Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague
  • research and processing technology of
  • electrically conducting composite plastic materials,
  • solar cells prepared from organic materials,
  • thin layers (mainly by vacuum evaporation),
  • materials for the new electromechanical transducers for nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS)
Web page:
www.fel.cvut.cz/en/
Research Institute for Metals, VÚK Panenské Břežany, s.r.o.
  • Applied research and development of non-ferrous alloys
  • Development of lead-free non-ferrous alloys
  • Development of production and processing technologies of non-ferrous metals
  • Testing and analyses of metal materials
  • Development of thermo-mechanical heat treatment of non-ferrous alloys
  • Technology transfer
  • Development of metal and alloy data-bases
Web page:
www.volny.cz/vuk
Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR
  • nondestructive material charakterization and diagnostics (acoustic emission, ultrasound, guided waves, crystal acoustics, acoustic microscopy, ultrasonic spectroscopy and nonlinear acoustics)
  • development of novel acoustic, ultrasonic, optical methods
  • in situ techniques
  • physical properties of phase trasnforming materials
  • shape memory alloys
  • smart structures and composites
  • functional materials and actuators
Web page:
www.it.cas.cz/~ml/lndm/
Department of Material Science and Technology - University of West Bohemia, Plzeň
  • physical metallurgy of alloy steels
  • thin film coatings of steels and polymers
  • numerical modelling of forging processes
Web page:
www.zcu.cz
ŠKODA VÝZKUM s.r.o. Plzeň
  • Investigation of Material Behaviours
  • Metallurgical research Stand Tests of Vehicles
  • Fatigue Life Assessment
  • Noise and Vibration Measurement
  • Electrotechnical Testing
  • Computer Simulation
  • Computational Fluid Dynamic
  • Application of Thermal Spraying Technology
Web page:
www.skoda.cz/vyzkum
Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, CTU Prague
  • mechanical properties of metals and alloys
  • properties of magnesium and aluminium alloys
  • properties of intermetallics
  • acoustic emission
  • electron microscopy
  • thermophysical properties of materials
Web page:
material.karlov.mff.cuni.cz/index-en.php
Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR
  • plasma spraying of coatings and free standing bodies
  • characterization of plasma sprayed materials
  • properties of plasma sprayed materials
  • materials for fusion applications
Web page:
http://www.ipp.cas.cz/
COMTES FHT, Plzeň
  • numerical simulation of forming
  • physical simulation of forming
  • mechanical properties of metals
  • metallography
  • forming tool properties
  • microforming
  • image analysis
  • heat treatment
  • thermomechanical treatment
Web page:
www.comtesfht.cz/en/index.php
Faculty of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, VSB-TU of Ostrava
  • Continuous casting
  • Nickel Super Alloys INCONEL base
  • Sulphide Stress Cracking
  • Corrosion Resistence of High Alloy Materials in the Passive  State
  • Fracture Toughness of Ceramics Cutting Tools
Web page:
www.fmmi.vsb.cz
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Structure and mechanical properties of wrought and cast HSLA steels
  • Development of new testing methods for diagnostics of metallic materials
  • Processing and properties of advanced magnesium alloys
  • Optimization of constitution and heat treatment of tool steels made by powder metallurgy
  • Carbon - carbon composites for bioengineering
  • Research on polymeric and composite materials for automotive applications
  • Development of materials for custom-fit products
  • Development of polymer composite materials for high performance machining systems
  • Damage and durability of thermoplastics polymer nanocomposites
  • Recycling processes for engineering plastics
Web page:
www.fs.cvut.cz/cz/U232/index.html
Institute of Physics of Materials AS CR
  • relation between the behaviour and properties of materials and their structural and microstructural charakteristics
  • creep, high-cycle and low-cycle fatigue, creep-fatigue interaction and other types of mechanical loading
  • brittle fracture and fracture mechanics
  • processing, microstructure and mechanical properties of ultrafine-grained metals and alloys
  • dislocation substructure, recovery and recrystallization of metallic materials
  • thermodynamic, diffusion and magnetic properties
  • microstructure of phases
  • particle and fibre-reinforced metal-base composites and nanocomposites
Web page:
www.ipm.cz
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology
  • Developement of research tecniques (optical tomography, holographic and confocal microscopy, optical diffraction and optical image processing, contactless measurement of the surface quality, etc.)
  • Etching and modification of solid surfaces and thin films by broad ion beams. Design and application of UHV apparatus for direct deposition of ultrathin films by focused ion beam. In-situ analysis of surfaces and deposited films. Building-up of research techniques or design of apparatuses: Time-of-flight-low-energy-ion-spectroscopy (TOF LEIS), secondary-ion-mass-spectroscopy (SIMS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning tunneling/atomic force microscopy (STM/AFM) in UHV conditions, surface structure determination by low-energy-electron-diffraction (LEED). Preparation and investigation of nanostructures by STM/AFM.
  • Mechanical properties and structure of materials. Ab initio approaches to determination of elastic and magnetic properties of crystals. Multiaxial fatigue of metallic materials. Quantitative fractography by means of stereogrammetrical methods. Cracks/microcracks behaviour in selected composites with brittle matrix.
  • Structure and properties of aluminium and magnesium alloys and composites
  • Nanomaterials and nanotechnologies (ceramics)
  • Kinetics of carbides precipitation in Cr-Mo steels
  • The modelling and experimental study of structural stability of modern heat resistent steels and their weldments
Web page:
www.fme.vutbr.cz/en
Institute of Physics AS CR
  • fundamental processes of crystal growth,
  • phase transformations and plastic deformation
  • the properties of intergranular and interphase boundaries
  • grain boundary migration and segregation,
  • interfaces in shape memory materials,
  • the impact of interfaces on deformation processes and transformation reactions
  • preparation of oriented single crystals and bicrystals with fully characterized boundaries characterization of thin layers,
  • quantitative phase analysis mechanical testing in situ deformation in TEM
  • multi-scale modelling of material properties for the interpretation of experimental findings spanning from the models based on the anisotropic continuum to the atomistic simulations
Web page:
www.fzu.cz/departments/metals/
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute, Prague
  • static and fatigue characteristics of materials in normal conditions or in heat/low temperature and humidity conditions
  • crack propagation, fracture mechanics
Web page:
www.vzlu.cz/
Vítkovice Research and Development, Ostrava
  • physical metallurgy of steels
  • materials engineering
  • advanced forming technologies
  • fatigue and fracture behaviour of steels
  • production of special ingot steel
  • chemical analyses of metallic materials
  • secondary metallurgy research
Web page:
http//www.vitkovice-vyzkum.cz
FJFI CVUT Prague
  • Fractography
  • Fractographic Reconstitution of Fatigue Crack History
  • Failure Analysis
  • Testing of Mechanical Properties
  • Damage Processes of Thermally Sprayed Coatings
  • Numerical Modelling of Stress and Strain Fields in Failure Processes
  • Advanced materials: Intermetalics, Ceramics, Composites etc.
Web page:
www.fjfi.cvut.cz
Czech Technical University in Prague, Klokner Institute
  • fibre composites with polymer matrices, characterization of properties
  • fracture and deformation behavior of fibre composites
  • numerical modeling of composites
  • nanomaterials
  • damage and failure of fibre composites
Web page:
web.cvut.cz/ki
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