Course Description

MBN 305 will provide the basic principles of phase equilibria and phase transformations in general and help students to adapt into this technologically important area. The course will focus mainly on the underlying thermodynamic principles of phase equilibrium, transformation and state. The binary and ternary phase diagrams, kinetics of phase diagrams, diffusion mechanism, and both the diffusional and diffusionless transformations in solids will be discussed.

Lecture Hours

• Monday:    13:30 - 15:20 (ST 1)
• Tuesday:   13:30 - 15:20 (ST 1)

Textbooks

• M. Hillert. Phase Equilibria, Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations, 2nd Ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
• D. A. Porter, K. E. Easterling, M. Y. Sherif. Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys, 3rd Ed., CRC Press, 2009.

Teaching Assistant

• Büşra Demir & Çağlanaz Akın

Course Outline

• 1^st Week      Introduction
• 2^nd Week      Basic Laws of Thermodynamics
• 3^rd Week      Materials Thermodynamics
• 4^th Week      Diffusion in Solids
• 5^th Week      Diffusion in Solids
• 6^th Week      Phase Equilibria in Binary Systems
• 7^th Week      Phase Transformations
• 8^th Week      Phase Transformations
• 9^th Week      Phase Equilibria in Ternary Systems
• 10^th Week    Phase Equilibria in Ternary Systems
• 11^th Week    Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes
• 12^th Week    Diffusionless Transformations