JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
1. A. Altincekic and Ercan Balikci: "Precipitate morphology and rafting in the superalloy IN738LC during compression creep", first manuscript sent to Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 2. A. Altincekic and Ercan Balikci: "Precipitate size in the superalloy IN738LC during compression creep", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, volume 44A, June 2013, pp. 2487-2498. (FULL TEXT) 3. Ercan Balikci and D. Erdeniz: "Multimodal Precipitation in the Superalloy IN738LC", Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A, volume 41A, June 2010, pp. 1391-1398. (FULL TEXT) 4. D. Erdeniz and Ercan Balikci: "Precipitate Formation and Evolution in the Superalloy IN738LC", Rare Metal Materials and Engineering, volume 38, suppl. 3, December 2009, pp. 142-146. (ABSTRACT) 5. A. K. Dwarapureddy, Ercan Balikci, S. Ibekwe, and A. Raman: "Activation energy for growth in single size distribution and the dissolution features of γ′ precipitates in the superalloy IN738LC", Journal of Materials Science, volume 43, March 2008, pp. 1802-1810. (FULL TEXT) 6. Ercan Balikci and A. Raman: "The Relationship Between Activation Energy And Precipitate Size For Precipitate Agglomeration", Journal of Materials Science, volume 43, February 2008, pp. 927-932. (FULL TEXT) 7. I. Roy, Ercan Balikci, S. Ibekwe, A. Raman: "Precipitate growth activation energy requirements in the duplex size γ′ distribution in the superalloy IN738LC", Journal of Materials Science, volume 40, December 2005, pp. 6207-6215. (FULL TEXT) 8. Ercan Balikci and A. Raman: "Characteristics of the γ’ Precipitates at High Temperatures in Ni-base Poly-crystalline Superalloy IN738LC", Journal of Materials Science, volume 35(14), 15 July 2000, pp. 3593-3597. (FULL TEXT) 9. Ercan Balikci, R.A. Mirshams, and A. Raman: "Tensile Strengthening in Nickel-Base Superalloy IN738LC", Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, volume 9(3), June 2000, pp. 324-329. (ABSTRACT) 10. Ercan Balikci, A. Raman, and R.A. Mirshams: "Microstructure and Texture Effect on the Thermal Expansion of a Variously Aged Polycrystalline Superalloy IN738LC", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, volume 30A, November 1999, pp. 2803-2808. (FULL TEXT) 11. Ercan Balikci, R.A. Mirshams, and A. Raman: "Fracture Behavior of the Superalloy IN738LC with Various Precipitate Microstructures", Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 265A, June1999, pp. 50-62. (FULL TEXT) 12. Ercan Balikci, R.E. Ferrell, Jr., and A. Raman,: "Preferred Orientations in the Superalloy IN738LC After Different Aging Heat Treatments", Zeitschrift Für Metallkunde, vol. 90, February 1999, pp. 141-146. (JOURNAL WEB SITE) 13. Ercan Balikci, R.A. Mirshams, and A. Raman: "Microstructure Evolution in Polycrystalline IN738LC in the Range 1120 to 1250°C", Zeitschrift Für Metallkunde, vol. 90, February 1999, pp. 132-140. (JOURNAL WEB SITE) 14. Ercan Balikci, A. Raman, and R.A. Mirshams: "Influence of Various Heat Treatments on the Microstructure of Polycrystalline IN738LC", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, volume 28A, October 1997, pp. 1993-2003. (ABSTRACT) CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1. A. Altınçekiç and E. Balikci, "Effect of Compressive Stress and Aging Time on the Evolution of Precipitate Microstructure in the Superalloy IN738LC", EUROMAT 2011, Montpellier, France, September 12 – 15, 2011, Poster. 2. D. Erdeniz and E. Balikci, "Precipitate Formation and Evolution in the Superalloy IN738LC", MRS International Materials Research Conference, Chongqing , China , June 09-12, 2008, p. 281. 3. E. Balikci, "Precipitate Agglomeration Mechanism", ASAT 12, Cairo, Egypt, May 29-31, 2007, p. 101. 4. E. Balikci, A. Raman, and R.A. Mirshams: "Dissolution Characteristics of Precipitates at High Temperatures in Ni-Base Superalloy IN738LC", Abstracts Book, MRS 1997 Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 1-5 December 1997, p. 48. 5. E. Balikci, A. Raman, and R.A. Mirshams: "Microstructure Development in Ni-Base Superalloy IN738LC", TMS Materials Week'97, Indianapolis, Indiana, 14-18 September 1997. 6. Z. X. Li, E. Balikci, R.A. Mirshams, and A. Raman: "Tensile Properties and Fracture Behaviors in Gamma TiAl Alloy and TiB2 Particle Reinforced TiAl Composite", Proceedings of the ASEE, Gulf-Southwest Section Meeting, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, 27-29 March 1996, pp. 791-794. 7. R.A. Mirshams, E. Balikci, Z.X. Li, and A. Raman: "Effect of TiB2 Particles on the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of Titanium Aluminides", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Composites Engineering –ICCE/2", Ed. by David Hui, New Orleans, Louisiana, 21-25 August 1995, pp. 511-512.