Phase Transitions in Materials

The new edition of this popular textbook provides a fundamental approach to phase transformations and thermodynamics of materials.

Brent Fultz (Author)

9781108485784, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 May 2020

604 pages
25.7 x 19.7 x 3.1 cm, 1.43 kg

The new edition of this popular textbook provides a fundamental approach to phase transformations and thermodynamics of materials. Explanations are emphasised at the level of atoms and electrons, and it comprehensively covers the classical topics from classical metallurgy to nanoscience and magnetic phase transitions. The book has three parts, covering the fundamentals of phase transformations, the origins of the Gibbs free energy, and the major phase transformations in materials science. A fourth part on advanced topics is available online. Much of the content from the first edition has been expanded, notably precipitation transformations in solids, heterogeneous nucleation, and energy, entropy and pressure. Three new chapters have been added to cover interactions within microstructures, surfaces, and solidification. Containing over 170 end-of-chapter problems, it is a valuable companion for graduate students and researchers in materials science, engineering, and applied physics.

Preface
Notation
Part I. Basic Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Phase Transformations: 2. Temperature-composition phase diagrams
3. Diffusion
4. Nucleation
5. Effects of diffusion and nucleation on phase transformations
Part II. The Atomic Origins of Thermodynamics and Kinetics: 6. Energy
7. Entropy
8. Pressure
9. Interactions in microstructures and constrained equilibrium
10. Atom movements with the vacancy mechanism
Part III. Types of Phase Transformations: 11. Thermodynamics and phase transitions at surfaces
12. Melting
13. Solidification
14. Phase transformations with interfaces, 1: microstructure
15. Phase transformations with interfaces, 2: energetics and kinetics
16. Spinodal decomposition
17. Phase field theory
18. Method of concentration waves and chemical ordering
19. Diffusionless transformations
20. Thermodynamics of nanomaterials
21. Magnetic and electronic phase transitions
Further reading
References
Index. Online Chapters – Advanced Topics: 22. Low-temperature analysis of phase boundaries
23. Statistical kinetics of ordering transformations
24. Elastic energy of solid precipitates
25. Diffusion, dissipation, and inelastic scattering
26. Vibrational thermodynamics of materials at high temperatures
27. Cooperative behavior near a critical temperature
28. Phase transitions in quantum materials.

Subject Areas: Engineering thermodynamics [TGMB], Materials science [TGM], Nanotechnology [TBN], Applied physics [PHV], Atomic & molecular physics [PHM], Thermodynamics & heat [PHH], Condensed matter physics [liquid state & solid state physics PHFC]