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Doctoral Thesis The Penetration Behavior of Repeated Hemisphere Core Sandwich Structures: an Experimental and Numerical Study(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Turan, Ali Kıvanç; Taşdemirci, Alper; Güden, MustafaIn this study, penetration behavior of novel core structure consisting hemispherical and cylindrical parts was investigated. Core units were manufactured with deep drawing method in two thicknesses to have monolithic form without any sort of assembly method or element. Produced specimens were then subjected to penetration tests at low and intermediate velocities against blunt, conical and hemispherical tipped indenters using special fixtures and apparatuses on conventional testing equipment. Effect of heat treatment on penetration behavior was investigated to observe whether residual stresses arise from manufacturing process changes the penetration behavior. Confinement effects were studied experimentally with a special fixture, allowing tested specimen to be radially confined with other core units as in an armor structure. Finally, experimental work was finished by conducting a case study where core units were subjected to spherical projectile impact up to impact velocities of 180 m.s-1 in a composite sandwich structure. Results show that each indenter geometry showed unique deformation characteristics in testing of both core units and both of the core geometries were able to hold a steel spherical projectile with mass of 110 g without full perforation at impact velocity of 180 m.s-1. Details of experimental results were presented in each chapter. Study also included modeling parts where core units were numerically produced with residual stresses and strains and good correlation was noted where thickness was compared with actual measurements on core units. Test conducted on single core structure in as-received and heat-treated condition were also repeated in numerical environment, where numerical study exhibited good correlation on both forcedisplacement curves and deformation of core units with tests. Correlation achieved with experimental study has led into further investigations of strain rate and micro-inertia where behavior of core units was studied at numerical impact velocities of 300 m.s-1. Results show that both strain rate and micro-inertia increase the local maximums and average of force levels. Effect of strain rate and micro-inertia is clearly distinguished for a threshold displacement level where micro-inertia is further dominant on behavior.Master Thesis Structural and Nanohardness Behavior of Low Energy, High Flux Nitrogen Implanted Austenitic Stainless Steel(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2018) Dal, Refika; Öztürk, Orhan316 austenitic stainless steels (SSs) are one of the most commercial and technological alloys and extensively used in the field of defence, nuclear and biomedical applications due to its excellent corrosion resistance in abrasive and erosive environment. However, this type of steel is rather soft, and these results in poor durability, in particular when this material (316 SS) is in contact with other surfaces. In addition, 316 SS is nonmagnetic at room temperature. In order to make the surface of 316 SS harder, nitrogen ion beam implantation and wear resistant method is applied. Earlier studies of high dose nitrogen ion implantation into the surface of austenitic SSs around 400 °C substrate temperature showed that an expanded austenite phase (The Nitrogen phase in the FCC lattice of 316 SS) gives excellent wear resistance with high hardness value. In this study, type 316 stainless steel (SS) was implanted with low energy (700 eV), high flux (2.9 mA/cm2) nitrogen ions at 400 °C substrate temperature in order to harden its surface. Microhardness and nanohardness measurements were carried out on the nitrogen implanted surface and on the nitrogen implanted cross-section under the applied loads ranging from 6 mN to 30 mN. Both microhardness and nanohardness data suggest that the hardness of the N implanted 316 SS significantly increases compared to the hardness of the substrate material (by a factor of 3 to 4).The hardness increase is believed to be due to the high amount of nitrogen, the thick nitrogen implanted layer and macroscopic residual compressive stresses, the formation of which is verified by θ/2θ XRD scans as lattice expansions about 10 at. %. SIMS profiles suggest concentration-dependent diffusion behavior for the N implanted layers. Based on SIMS and SEM/EDX data, nitrogen implanted layers are 4-5 micron thick and constituting about 28 %.