COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FAILURE ANALYSIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MME 6006 FAILURE ANALYSIS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

M.Sc. Metallurgical and Material Engineering
Metallurgical and Material Engineering
Metallurgical and Material Engineering

Course Objective

The purpose of the course is to familiarize the students with the general procedures, techniques, and precautions employed in the investigation and analysis of metallurgical failures that occur in service. Methods and ways required to analyze a failure in establishing the primary as well as contributory causes of types of failure, characteristics and their identification, various fundamental mechanisms involved in failure are discussed in general and examples of failures are displayed where available.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students should gain the knowledge regarding the general procedures, techniques, and precautions employed in the investigation and analysis of metallurgical failures that occur in service,
2   Students should be able to design experimental tests test setup to asses the properties of materials insufficiently failed to meet the requirements expected,
3   To encourage students to gain and develop a sense of understanding to solve the disputes involving in failure problems,
4   Understand and identify the types of environmental- and service-related failure,
5   Uderstand the effect of loading conditions on the fatigue-related failure and strength of materials,
6   Uderstand the methods and ways required to analyze a failure in establishing the primary as well as contributory causes of types of failure,
7   Recognise the fundamental mechanisms involved in failure and identify the types of failures.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Engineering aspects of failure analysis: General practice in failure analysis, use of microanalyitical techniques in failure analysis,
2 Engineering aspects of failure analysis: Failure analysis and fracture mechanics, Ductile to brittle fracture transition
3 Identification of types of failures: Classification of fractures, environmentally effected fractures,
4 Identification of types of failures: Determination of fracture type,
5 Environment-effected failures: Corrosion-fatigue failures, stress corrosion cracking,
6 Environment-effected failures: Hydrogen damage failures, elevated temperature failures,
7 I st Interim Exam.
8 Environment-effected failures: Creep, stress rupture, metallurgical instability at high temperatures,
9 Environment-effected failures: Wear failures,
10 Service-related fatigue failures: Fatigue crack characteristic, characteristic features of basic crack types in relation to the loading conditions.
11 Service-related fatigue failures: Examples of service failures, detection of fatigue cracks,
12 Service-related fatigue failures: Fundamental of fatigue failure, parameters effecting fatigue strength,
13 2nd Interim Exam
14 Service-related fatigue failures: Fatigue failure at elevated temperature, Embrittlement of steels: thermally induced embrittlement, environmentally assisted embrittlement.

Recomended or Required Reading

Analysis of metallurgical Failures, Second Edition, by V.J. Colangelo, F.A. Heiser. John Wiley & Sons, Publication, 1987.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Oral and visual presentation, discussion and problem solving. Preperation of term assignments related to a case study involved in failure and its presentation.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Lecture presentation will be provided in class room in line of the course content and discussion regarding topics presented will be held. Problem solving will be presented in relation to the appropriate subjects included in curriculum.

Assessment Criteria

Students performances will be assessed by exams, assignment and presentation according to Learning
Objectives LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5, LO6, LO7.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Lecture presentation will be provided in class room in line of the course content and discussion regarding topics presented will be held. Problem solving will be presented in relation to the appropriate subjects included in curriculum

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Ahmet ÇAKIR
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Engineering,
Metalurgical and Materials Engineering
Tınaztepe Campus, 35160 Buca / IZMIR
Tel+90 232 3017480
ahmet.cakir@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

On Fridays btw. 09:00-10:00 am

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparing presentations 2 20 40
Preparing assignments 2 30 60
Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 209

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.1434233
LO.244434
LO.3543433
LO.44333
LO.5343
LO.6344434
LO.7453333

CONTACT INFORMATION
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Cumhuriyet Bulvarı No: 144 35210 Alsancak / İZMİR
Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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