COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ESRA DOKUMACI

Offered to

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Course Objective

The objectives of this course are to provide students with the following competencies:
1.Understanding the concept of free energy in structuring the phase diagrams under equilibrium.
2.Understanding the application of the phase rule to one, two-, three-component system.
3. Knowledge of crystallization paths and their application to practical problem solving.
4. Understanding the use of lever rule in calculating amounts of phases in practical problems involving various invariant points.
5. Reading and analysing composition triangle in thernary phase diagrams.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
2. Phase Transformation in Metals and Alloys, David, A Porter,Kenneth, E Easterling, , Chapman and Hall,0 412 45030 5, UK, 1997

Supplementary Book(s):

1. Principles of Phase Diagrams in Materials Systems,Paul Gordon, , ,McGraw-Hill Book Campany,68-11604,USA,1968
2. Introduction to Phase Equilibria in Ceramic Systems, Floyd, A Hummel, , , Marcel Dekker, Inc.,0 8247 7152 4, USA, 1984

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Oral and visual presentation, discussions, problem solving

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Lecture presentation will be provided in class room in line of the course content and discussion regarding topics presented will be held. Problem solving will be presented in relation to the appropriate subjects included in curriculum

Assessment Criteria

1. Identify number, composition, proportion and structural arrangement of phases in binary alloys.
2. T-P-G diagrams in unary, binary and ternary component systems
3. Structuring composition-temperature phase diagrmas by use of free energy change as a function of temperature.
4. Le Chatelier Principle and Clasius-Clapeyron Equation and its implementation
5. Describe structural changes due to varying proportion of alloying elements and temperature.
6. Describe the phase changes and final microstructures of binary alloys cooled under equilibrium conditions from the melt or during heat treatment operations.
7. Compute the amount of phases existing at different temperature levels in binary and thernary systems.
8. Describe the final microstructure involving phase transformations at different invariant points such as eutectic, eutectoid, peritectic, peritectoid ect.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Lecture presentation will be provided in class room in line of the course content and discussion regarding topics presented will be held. Problem solving will be presented in relation to the appropriate subjects included in curriculum.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Ahmet ÇAKIR
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Engineering,
Metalurgical and Materials Engineering
Tınaztepe Campus, 35160 Buca / IZMIR
Tel+90 232 3017480
ahmet.cakir@deu.edu.tr

Prof. Dr. Ali Aydın Göktaş
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Engineering,
Metalurgical and Materials Engineering
Tınaztepe Campus,
35160 Buca / IZMIR
Tel+90 232 3017480
aydin. goktas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

On Fridays btw. 09:00-10:00 am

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes