• Applicatons and requirements for high temperature
• High temperature corrosion (thermodynamics, oxidaton kinetics, oxidation of alloys, protection of high temperature materials)
• Creep (creep curve, creep mechanisms, creep of solid-solution strengthened materials, reep of particcle hardened alloys, life time prodiction)
• Fatique (fundamentals, life time prediction)
• Thermo-mechanical fatique

• R. Bürgel: Handbuch
• Hochtemperaturwerkstofftechnik, 3. Auflage, Vieweg 2006
• Rösler, H. Harders, M. Bäker: Mechanisches Verhalten der Werkstoffe, 2. Auflage, Teubner 2006
• (N. Birks, G.H. Meier, F.S. Pettit, Introduction to the high-temperature oxidation of matrals, 2nd Edition, Cambridge Universtity Press (2006)

Oral examination (about 30 min)