Physical Metallurgy II
- Week 1: Introduction to the course, preliminary definitions of phase transformation
- Week 4: Inter phase interfaces in solids, homogeneous nucleation in solids
- Week 2: Phase transformation (continue), nucleation and growth, solidification
- Week 3: Homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation
- Week 6: Diffusion and its mechanisms, diffusion in ideal solutions, Fick's first law
- Week 11: Essential parameters influencing diffusion coefficient, diffusion along grain boundaries and free surfaces, lattice diffusion, TTT diagram, age (precipitation) hardening
- Week 13: Spinodal decomposition, recovery, recrystalization and growth
- Week 5: Nucleation with incoherent interface in solids, critical radius of coherency loss, heterogeneous nucleation in solids
- Week 7: Kirkendall effect, Darken's equations, Fick's second law, Grube method in solution of Fick's second law
- Week 8: Midterm examination
- Week 9: Solution of Fick's second law by Matano method, thin film solution, surface hardening, diffusion with constant surface concentration (carburizing, nitriding), decarburization, self diffusion
- Week 10: (Continue) Solution of Fick's second law by Matano method, thin film solution, surface hardening, diffusion with constant surface concentration (carburizing, nitriding), decarburization, self diffusion
- Week 12: (Continue) age (precipitation) hardening, active hardening mechanisms during age hardening
- Week 14: Pearlitic phase transformation, diffusional transformation
- Week 15: Martensitic transformation, diffusionless transformation
- Week 16: Bainitic transformation