COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADVANCED REFRACTORY MATERIALS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MME 5009 ADVANCED REFRACTORY MATERIALS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ALI AYDIN GÖKTAŞ

Offered to

M.Sc. Metallurgical and Material Engineering
Metallurgical and Material Engineering

Course Objective

Giving principle knowledge to the students about the production technology, classification, application, thermal behaviour, selection and determining the properties of advanced refractories with comparing with the conventional refractories.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To classify the advanced refractory products, and to understand generel properties, and chemical and minerallogical structures
2   To comprehend the production technology, properties and microstructures of advanced refractory materials
3   To understand the behaviour and modification changes and thermal and mechanical properties under the effect of heat
4   To have the knowledge about the production, application and properties of shaped products as of silica, alumina, zirconia, magnesia, SiC, electrically fused and insulation refractories
5   To classify unshaped castable refractories and to get knowledge about their processes and properties
6   To understand the interaction of refractories with industrial slags, glass melts, and gases

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Refractory Materials definition in General Classification of Refractory Materials General view of traditional and advanced refractories
2 General properties of refractory materials, Density and Porosity, Types of Pores and Pore Size Distribution, Thermal properties
3 Chemical and Mineralogical structures, Phases and Phase proportions
4 Behavior of refractories during firing , Drying, Sintering, Melting and Softening
5 Modification DTA, Termogravimetry, Thermal expansion, Thermal Shock Resistance , Thermal Conductivity
6 Mechanical properties, Mechanical behaviour at room and high temperatures, Behaviour of Rupture mechanics, Forming of rises and fractures, Crushing Strength, Abrasion Resistance, Refractoriness under load
7 Midterm
8 Shaped Refractory Products Manufacture of Refractory Bricks The Most Important Groups of Refractory Brciks and Their Application
9 Processing and Properties of Refractory bricks based on Silica, Alumina, Magnesia, Magnesia- Alumina, Chromite, and SiC
10 Electrically Fused Products Refractory Heat-Insulation Materials, and Fibers
11 Unshaped Castable Refractory Products (Monolithics) Types of Bonding and Classification of Unshaped Products Layıng and Jointing Materials (Mortar, Mastics, Adhesives) .
12 Unshaped Castable Refractories with and without cements along with Refractory Concrete Products
13 Resistance of refractories against slags, glass melts and gases
14 Selection criteria of Refractory Products

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Wolfgang Schulle,Feuerfeste Werkstoffe, Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie,
Leipzig Stuttgart, 1990
2. Gerald Routschka and Hartmut Wuthnow, Pocket Manual Refractory Materials : Design,
Properties and Testing 3rd Ed. Vulkan Verlag, 2008
REFERENCE :
Refractory Materials and Their Properties, Didier Werke, Wiesbaden, 1990

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

formal education, assignments, presentations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PRS PRESENTATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + FIN * 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes ; 1-6 All exams questions

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

aydin.goktas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Mondays, 16.00- 17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 6 5 30
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 2 15 30
Midterm 1 20 20
Final 1 35 35
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 172

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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