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Phase transitions in materials /

Fultz, B.

Phase transitions in materials / Brent Fultz, California Institute of Technology. - xxiv, 563 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-553) and index.

Essentials of T-c phase diagrams -- Diffusion -- Nucleation -- Effects of diffusion and nucleation on phase transformations -- Energy -- Entropy -- Pressure -- Atom movements with the vacancy mechanism -- Melting -- Transformations involving precipitates and interfaces -- Spinodal decomposition -- Phase field theory -- Method of concentration waves and chemical ordering -- Diffusionless transformations -- Thermodynamics of nanomaterials -- Magnetic and electronic phase transitions -- Phase transitions in quantum materials -- Low temperature analysis of phase boundaries -- Cooperative behavior near a critical temperature -- Elastic energy of solid precipitates -- Statistical kinetics of ordering transformations -- Diffusion, dissipation, and inelastic scattering -- Vibrational thermodynamics of materials at high temperatures.

9781107067240

2013046223


Phase transformations (Statistical physics)--Textbooks.
Thermodynamics--Textbooks.
Materials--Thermal properties--Textbooks.
Statistical mechanics--Textbooks.

QC175.16.P5 / F86 2014

530.4/74
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