Revised to reflect recent developments in the field, Phase Transformation in Metals and Alloys, Fourth Edition, continues to be the most authoritative and approachable resource on the subject. It supplies a comprehensive overview of specific types of phase transformations, supplemented by practical case studies of engineering alloys. The book's unique presentation links a basic understanding of theory with application in a gradually progressive yet exciting manner. Based on the authors' teaching notes, the text takes a pedagogical approach and provides examples for applications and problems that can be readily used for exercises.
NEW IN THE FOURTH EDITION
- 40% of the figures and 30% of the text
- Insights provided by numerical modelling techniques such as ab initio, phase field, cellular automaton, and molecular dynamics
- Insights from the application of advanced experimental techniques, such as high-energy X-ray diffraction, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, combined with electron backscattered diffraction
- New treatment of ternary phase diagrams and solubility products
- The concept of paraequilibrium in systems containing highly mobile interstitial elements
- Thermodynamics of grain boundaries and the influence of segregation on grain boundary diffusion
- Reference to software tools for solving diffusion problems in multicomponent systems
- Introduction to concepts related to coincident site lattices and methods for determining the dislocation content of grain boundaries and interfaces
- Updated treatment of coherency and interface structure including the important fcc-bcc interfaces
- Treatment of metallic glasses expanded to cover critical cooling rate
- Austin-Rickets equation introduced as an alternative to the Avrami equation in the case of precipitation kinetics
- Discussion of the effects of overlap in nucleation, growth and coarsening
- Discussion of pearlite and bainite transformations updated
- Entirely new and extensive treatment of diffusionless martensitic transformations covering athermal and thermally activated martensite in ferrous systems as well as shape memory, superelasticity and rubber-like behavior in ordered nonferrous alloys
- New practical applications covering spinodal alloys, fir-tree structures in aluminum castings, Al-Cu-Li aerospace alloys, superelastic and shape memory alloys, quenched and partitioned steels, advanced high-strength steels and martensitic stainless steels
- Each chapter now concludes with a summary of the main points
- References to scientific publications and suggestions for f
