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The document is a take-home examination for a course on phase transformations, detailing five questions related to phase diagrams, precipitation-hardening processes, transformation kinetics, spinodal decomposition, and heat treatment of iron-carbon alloys. Each question requires derivations, sketches, and discussions of specific concepts in materials science. The exam is due on May 9th, 2014, and covers various aspects of phase transformation theory and practical applications in metallurgy.

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Take HOME Exam 2014

The document is a take-home examination for a course on phase transformations, detailing five questions related to phase diagrams, precipitation-hardening processes, transformation kinetics, spinodal decomposition, and heat treatment of iron-carbon alloys. Each question requires derivations, sketches, and discussions of specific concepts in materials science. The exam is due on May 9th, 2014, and covers various aspects of phase transformation theory and practical applications in metallurgy.

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MAM 506E Phase Transformations

Take-home EXAMINATION
Prof. Dr. M. Lütfi ÖVEÇOĞLU
Handed on May 6th, 2014
Due : May 9th, 2014 Friday

1) By means of plotting G versus composition (X B) diagrams at different temperatures,


derive and sketch a eutectic phase diagram of A-B where both solid phases (  and ) have
the same crystal structure. Verify the Gibbs Phase rule in the : i) one phase region, ii) two
phase regions, iii) on the eutectic temperature and iv) at the invariant (eutectic) point. (20
points)

2) Approximating Al 2024 as an Al-4.4 wt.% Cu binary alloy, consider the solution-treatment


and aging process used for precipitation-hardening.
a) What is the purpose of the solution-treatment step and why is it necessary for
precipitation-hardening?
b) On a sketch of the Al-Cu phase diagram, indicate an appropriate solution-treatment
temperature.
c) Consider an alloy that has been fully solution-treated and then quenched to room
temperature. On the same type of coordinate axes as in part (b), sketch a series of profiles
showing how the Cu concentration would vary with time around a  precipitate growing in the
matrix at the aging temperature of 300°C.

3) Derive appropriate Avrami equations for the overall transformation kinetics for disk shaped
precipitates in a thin sheet and cylindrical precipitates in a wire. Assume constant rates of
nucleation and growth. Assume also that the disk precipitates in the sheet have their broad
faces on the surfaces of the sheet, i.e., they have the same thickness as that of the sheet,
and that the cylindrical precipitates in the wire have their axes in the longitudinal direction of
the wire and have the same diameter as that of the wire at all time during the transformation.

4) Describe and discuss the origin and important features of spinodal decomposition. Use the
following terms in your answer and underline them: enthalpy of mixing, curvature of the G
curve, uphill diffusion, spontaneous separation, nucleation, activity coefficient, chemical
gradient energy, coherency strain energy, miscibility gap, clustering.
5) The iron-carbon phase diagram allows the engineer to design a wide range of steels with
specific properties for different applications. Using the Fe-C phase diagram explain, as
quantitatively as possible how you would obtain the following by heat treatment:
a) a hypoeutectoid steel composition which contains less than 10 wt.% of cementite,
b) spheroidite in a 1090 steel (5 marks)(c) a normalized 1040 steel.
c) Draw a TTT diagram (isothermal) for an Fe – 1.0 wt% C alloy.
d) Compare this with that for an Fe – 0.6 wt% C alloy.
e) What would be the effect of a finer austenite grain size on the TTT diagram of part c?

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