Following the completion of the module the student should:
- know the classification of modern tool materials according to various criteria in order to use them for the manufacture of various instruments; structure and properties of different groups of tool materials and their changes in the temperature range of operation; change and improvement of the materials properties due to mechanical and heat treatments that will provide optimal technological and operational properties of the tool.
- be able to apply knowledge of tool materials for forecasting, selection and production of a particular type of cutting, stamping, measuring tool; assign processing to obtain optimum properties and complex structures that would ensure long-term and reliable operation of the instrument; analyze the phenomena that occur in the operation of instruments; evaluate their behavior in the operation and identify the causes of its destruction.

pre-requisite: Physics; Manufacturing Technology and Materials Processing; Metal Forming.
co-requisite: Metallurgy; Theory of the Structure of Alloys; Heat Treatment.

Tool materials, their classification. Tool steels, classification, marking, chemical composition, purpose. Tool steel properties: physical, chemical, mechanical, thermal and engineering. Carbon low-alloy, fast, dies steel, classification, grade, chemical composition, structure, heat treatment, application. Steels for the measuring instrument. Solid-metal alloys, mineral ceramic and polycrystalline superhard, tungstenless, abrasive materials: classification, marking, chemical composition, technology acquisition, use.

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- current control (30%): written reports for laboratory work, oral examination in defending of reports, colloquium, report on the topic of individual tasks;
- final control (70%) exam (written component — 60%, oral component — 10%).