Research Catalog

Title

Physical metallurgy / Peter Haasen ; translated by Janet Mordike.

Author

Haasen, P. (Peter)

Publication

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

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Details

Description

xvi, 392 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Physikalische Metallkunde. English

Alternative Title

Physikalische Metallkunde.

Subject

• Physical metallurgy
• Métallurgie physique

Note

• Translation of: Physikalische Metallkunde.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF METALS: Microscopy of surfaces -- Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) -- Diffuse X-ray scattering -- Field ion microscopy (FIM) -- Thermal analysis -- Mechanical testing methods -- Investigation of anelasticity -- Mossbauer effect -- The stereographic projection -- MICROSTRUCTURE AND PHASE, GRAIN AND PHASE BOUNDARIES: Structure of grain boundaries -- Energy of grain boundaries and its measurement -- Interphase interfaces -- SOLIDIFICATION: Homogeneous nucleation -- Heterogeneous nucleation -- Crystal growth -- Growth of single crystals and the origin of dislocations -- Distribution of dissolved solute atoms on solidification -- Eutectic solidification -- Metallic glasses -- THERMODYNAMICS OF ALLOYS: Equilibrium conditions -- Statistical thermodynamics of ideal and regular binary solutions -- Measurements of the energy of mixing and the activity -- More advanced models of solutions -- Derivation of binary phase diagrams from the model of a solution -- Free energies and binary phase diagrams -- Ternary phase diagrams -- STRUCTURE AND THEORY OF METALLIC PHASES: Two important binary systems -- Structures of pure metals and elastic instabilities -- Hume-Rothery phases and electrons in alloys -- Alloy phases determined by atomic size -- Normal valency compounds -- ORDERED ARRANGEMENTS OF ATOMS: Superlattices -- Incomplete order, degrees of order -- Ordered domains and their boundaries -- Kinetics of ordering -- DIFFUSION: Isothermal diffusion with a constant diffusion coefficient -- Atomic mechanisms of diffusion -- Diffusion with a concentration-dependent D -- Diffusion in interfaces and along dislocations -- Electro- and thermomigration -- Oxidation of metals --
• PRECIPITATION: Nucleation of precipitates -- Rate equations for the growth of precipitates -- Ostwald ripening -- Spinodal decomposition -- Discontinuous precipitation and eutectoid decomposition -- TTT diagrams -- POINT DEFECTS, ESPECIALLY THOSE CREATED BY QUENCHING AND IRRADIATION: Measurement of the equilibrium vacancy concentration -- Quenching and annealing of excess vacancies -- Effects of irradiation with high-enetgy particles -- Recovery stages after irradiation -- Radiation damage to reactor materials -- LINE DEFECTS-DISLOCATIONS: Topological properties of dislocations -- Elasticity theory of dislocations -- Dislocations in crystals -- Dislocation dynamics -- PLASTIC DEFORMATION, WORK HARDENING AND FRACTURE: Crystallography of plastic shear -- Slip and dislocation movement -- Flow stress and work hardening -- Dynamic recovery- cross-slip and climb -- Deformation of polycrystals, deformation texture -- Grain boundary sliding and superplasticity -- Cyclic deformation and fatigue -- Fracture at small tensile strains-'brittle fracture' -- MARTENSITIC TRANSFORMATIONS: Mechanical twinning -- Characterization of martensitic transformations -- Crystallography of martensitic transformations -- The martensitic phase boundary -- Nucleation of martensite -- Hardening of steel -- The displacive w-transformation -- ALLOY HARDENING: Solid solution hardening -- Dislocation locking and unlocking -- Precipitation hardening -- Dispersion hardening and fibre-reinforcement -- RECRYSTALLIZATION: Primary recrystallization -- Grain growth -- Recrystallization textures -- Secondary recrystallization (grain growth).

ISBN

• 0521324890
• 9780521324892
• 052131027X
• 9780521310277

LCCN

86006059

OCLC

• ocm13332619
• 13332619
• SCSB-9360920

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library