MSE 409 PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS

FALL 2018

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Dr. İlkay Kalay   

Office: N-B15    E-mail: ikalay@cankaya.edu.tr

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is a three-credit course emphasizing diffusion from phenomenological and atomistic approach, precipitation, free energy-composition   diagrams, precipitation transformations, solid-state nucleation, precipitation kinetics, coarsening, eutectoid transformation and discontinuous precipitation, martensitic transformations, crystallography, thermodynamics and types of martensites, bainite transformation.

TEXTBOOKS

  1. J. D. Verhoven, Fundamentals of Physical Metallurgy, John Wiley and Sons, 1975.
  2. D.A.Porter, K.E.Easterling, M. Sherif, Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys, Third Edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold International, 2009.

REFERENCE BOOK

  1. Robert E Reed-Hill, R. Abbaschian, Physical Metallurgy Principles, R E Reed-Hill/Abbaschian, 1991.

GRADING

Midterm I

25 %

Midterm II

25 %

  Homework +Quiz

10 %

Final Examination

40 %

TOTAL

100 %*

*Minimum of 70 % attendance in class is mandatory.