After the merger of the faculties in 2007, the Faculty of Metallurgy was established as the Department of "Metallurgy, Materials Science and Metal Processing", headed by Professor D. Nozadze, and from 2021 candidate of physical sciences, associate professor Zurab Sabashvili. Address: room 512, X building, phone: 0322 77 11 11 (7364), e-mail: z_sabashvili@gtu.ge

8 professors, 11 associate professors and 3 assistant professors work in the department.

The relevant directions of the department are:

• Materials science
• Foundry production and new technological processes
• Metallurgy of ferrous metals
• Pressure treatment of metals
• Metallurgy of non-ferrous metals
• Welding production

 

The department operates two educational programs: "Metallurgy" and "Materials Science". In 2021, all three levels of both programs: bachelor's, master's and doctoral, received seven-year accreditation.

Over the past five years, the academic staff has published more than three dozen monographs, more than five dozen textbooks, as well as electronic versions of lecture courses, auxiliary manuals, patents, etc.

For the purpose of rational use of the Chiatura deposit, extension of its exploitation period and ecological improvement of the environment, the dean of the Faculty of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy and the Department of "Metallurgy, Materials Science and Metal Processing", effective and economically profitable technologies for obtaining "special concentrates" and "special products" and smelting the corresponding manganese ferroalloys, for which patents were issued: P 3370; P 3469; P6255; P 6558. All four patents were purchased by Georgian Manganese (2012 and 2020).

Under the leadership of Prof. M. Udariashvili, the scientists of the department developed for the first time the technology of making X-ray structurally amorphous, nanocrystalline powders by means of metal vaporization with an electron beam and subsequent condensation of the steam flow (the method of making powders of nanometer dimensions. Patent P 4876).

Under the leadership of M. Udariashvili, the mechanisms of phase formation through condensation of steam flow and reactive diffusion have been developed; transformations during combustion in non-equilibrium condensed films; Influence of the nature of the substrate surface on the condensate structure and phase composition. The obtained results were reported and published at international conferences in Seattle (USA, 2006), St. in Hanover (Germany, 2007), St. in Toulouse (France, 2007); in Zakopane (Poland, 2019); in Tbilisi (Georgia, 2019); in Minsk (Belarus, 2020).