Phase Transformations

Catalog description

The phase of a material is dependent upon temperature, thermal history, and other variables such as pressure and composition. In this course concepts of metallurgical thermodynamics and kinetics are used to study phase transformations to produce materials with desired properties. Subjects covered include diffusion in solids, crystal interfaces (coherent, semi-coherent, incoherent interfaces), nucleation and growth, equilibrium and nonequilibrium solidification processes, solid state transformations (nucleation and growth of precipitates, GP-Zone formation, Ostwald's step rule, order-disorder transition, spinodal decomposition, martensitic transformation).