MAK516

Heat Treatment

Faculty \ Department
School of Engineering \ Mechanical Engineering
Course Credit
ECTS Credit
Course Type
Instructional Language
3
9
Elective
Turkish
Prerequisites
-
Programs that can take the course
Course Description
Overview of heat treatment, phases and structures, iron-carbon phase diagram, effect of carbon and alloying elements, critical temperatures, eutectoid reaction and pearlite transformation, martensite transformations, bainite and bainite formation mechanisms, hardness and hardenability, factors affecting cooling rate, Jomini test, tempering of steel, precipitation hardening, normalizing, annealing and curing, residual stresses, surface hardening processes
Textbook and / or References
1. A. Gilat & V. Subramaniam. Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists, 3rd edition, Wiley ,2013 2. Ramin S. Esfandiari. Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists Using MATLAB. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
Course Objectives
1. To learn the basic concepts of steel heat treatment.
2. To understand the relationship between microstructural changes and material properties and performance depending on the type of heat treatment.
Learning the connection.
3. Learning the types of heat treatment.
Course Outcomes
1. To learn the basic concepts of steel heat treatment.
2. To understand the relationship between microstructural changes and material properties and performance depending on the type of heat treatment. Learning the connection.
3. Learning the types of heat treatment.
Tentative Course Plan
Week 1: Introduction to heat treatment (3 hours)
Week 2: Iron-carbon phase diagram (3 hours)
Week 3: Phases and structures (4 hours)
Week 4: Ferrite, cementite and pearlite (4 hours)
Week 5: Martensite and martensite transformation (4 hours)
Week 6: Mechanisms of the brain and its formation (3 hours)
Week 7: Hardness and hardenability (3 hours)
Week 8: Tempering (3 hours)
Week 9: Precipitation hardening (3 hours)
Week 10: Normalizing, annealing and curing (3 hours)
Week 11: Residual stresses and heat treatment (3 hours)
Week 12: Surface hardening processes (3 hours)
Tentative Assesment Methods
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