Metallurgical and 
Materials Engineering  
 
Nagehan Duman

Nagehan Duman

Room: D-312

Tel: +90 (312) 210-2534
Fax: +90 (312) 210-2518

E-mail: nduman@metu.edu.tr

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Research Interests:

  • Intermetallics
  • Magnetic Intermetallics
  • Bulk Metallic Glasses
  • Nanocrystallization


Courses and Laboratories:

Materials Science and Engineering, Vibrating Sample Magnetometer Lab.

Education Info:

B.S.; Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Dept, Eskişehir Osmangazi University
M.S.; Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Dept, Yıldız Technical University
Ph.D.; Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Dept, METU (On-going)

Nickel Aluminides for High Temperature Engineering Applications

Supervisor(s): Dr. Amdulla O. Mekhrabov & Dr. M. Vedat Akdeniz

The intermetallic compound NiAl has drawn much attention owing to its physical properties, which can be exploited for high-temperature structural applications. However, the lack of room temperature ductility and poor strength at high temperatures hinder its utilization. The addition of Fe with a convenient thermal treatment generates to form BCC α phase Fe precipitates in the NiAl matrix. The Fe precipitates improve both the high temperature strength (by precipitation strengthening mechanism) and magnetic properties of Ni-Al-Fe alloys. Therefore, the formation of Fe precipitates could be determined from changes in the magnetic properties for Ni-Al-Fe alloys. The influence of annealing on the microstructural evolution and magnetic properties of Ni50FexAl50-x alloys for x=20, 25, 30 has been investigated.

Room temperature magnetization values of Fe20, Fe25 and Fe30 alloys.