GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
DIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION/5211337
Course Title: DIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 2 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
   Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Being able to design directional solidified materials.
Being able to design directional solidified materials.
To be able to conduct an academic research on a selected topic within the course content.

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Introduction to Solidification Theory: Homogeneous nucleation, Gibbs free energy, free energies of volume and surface, nucleation initiation conditions.
2. Week  Directional Solidification in pure metals: Initial conditions of growth, attachment mechanisms at the atomic level in the liquid-solid interface, faceted and non-faceted growth, initial evolution of stable and unstable interfaces and growth at the atomic scale. Interface growth under positive and ne
3. Week  Directional Solidification of Alloys: Constitutional undercooling, growth differences between conventional and directional solidification. Cellular and dendritic solidification and growth directions of dendrites.
4. Week  Directional Solidification of Alloys: Interfacial structures due to temperature gradient and growth rate, redistribution of solute atoms in cellular solidification, morphology and crystallography of dendrites.
5. Week  Directional Solidification of Alloys: Detailed shape analysis of the resulting dendrites and diffusion field at the tip of a growing thermal dendrite.
6. Week  Quality Control of Directional Solidification: Primary dendrite arm spacing and its effect on the growth structures. Secondary and tertiary dendrite arm spacing.
7. Week  Mid-term examination
8. Week  Directionally Solidified Eutectics: Regular and irregular eutectics, diffusion coupled growth, curvature effects at the eutectic interface, eutectic and eutectoid spacing as a function of growth rate, types of eutectic interface instability.
9. Week  Peritectic growth, micro and macro segregation, anisotropy of directionally solidified materials, comparison of microstructure, macrostructure and mechanical properties with conventional castings.
10. Week  Thermal analysis of directional solidification, analysis of the cooling curves and determination of liquid-solid interface velocities. Temperature distributions and thermal maps for analyzing directional solidification.
11. Week  Bridgman method, its solidification conditions and obtained products. Single crystal production methods, the effect of grain selectors, production parameters and temperature distributions.
12. Week  Czochralski single crystal growth method. Ostrogorsky submerged heater method, solidification conditions and obtained products. Dynamic solidification method for solar cells and advanced automated directional solidification furnace in space for single crystals.
13. Week  Second mid-term: homework presentation.
14. Week  Second mid-term: homework presentation.
15. Week  Final Examination
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
30
 Assignment
1
30
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
60
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
6
0
 Searching in Internet and Library
8
0
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
3
0
 Preparing a Presentation
7
4
28
 Presentation
7
4
28
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
7
8
56
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
7
5
35
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
189
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.56
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
11X
12X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Assist. Prof. Dr. Kamil Kunt TUZUNALP )
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/tuzunalp)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   ( tuzunalp@gazi.edu.tr , ktuzunalp@gmail.com)