KINETICS OF MATERIALS A CLASSROOM-TESTED TEXTBOOK PROVIDING A FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC KINETIC PROCESSES IN MATERIALS
This textbook, reflecting the hands-on teaching experience of its three authors, evolved from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s first-year graduate curriculum in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. It discusses key topics collectively representing the basic kinetic processes that cause changes in the size, shape, composition, and atomistic structure of materials. Readers gain a deeper understanding of these kinetic processes and of the properties and applications of materials.
Topics are introduced in a logical order, enabling students to develop a solid foundation before advancing to more sophisticated topics. Kinetics of Materials begins with diffusion. offering a description of the elementary manner in which atoms and molecules move around in solids and liquids. Next, the more complex motion of dislocations and interfaces is addressed. Finally, still more complex kinetic phenomena, such as morphological evolution and phase transformations, are treated.
Throughout the textbook, readers are instilled with an appreciation of the subjects analytic foundations and, in many cases, the approximations commonly used in the field. The authors offer many extensive derivations of important results to help illuminate their origins. While the principal focus is on kinetic phenomena in crystalline materials, select phenomena in noncrystalline materials are also discussed. In many cases, the principles involved apply to all materials.
Exercises with accompanying solutions are provided throughout Kinetics of Materials, enabling readers to put their newfound knowledge into practice. In addition, bibliographies are offered with each chapter, helping readers to investigate specialized topics in greater detail. Several appendices presenting important background material are also included.
With its unique range of topics, progressive structure, and extensive exercises, this classroom- tested textbook provides an enriching learning experience for first-year graduate students.
Table of Contents:
Preface xvii
Acknowldegments xix
Notation xx
Symbol Table-Roman xxi
Symbol Table-Greek xxv
1. Introduction 1
Part I: Motion of Atoms and Molecules By Diffusion
2. Irreversible Thermodynamics: Coupled Forces and Fluxes 23
3. Driving Forces and Fluxes for Diffusion 41
4. The Diffusion Equation 77
5. Solutions to the Diffusion Equation 99
6. Diffusion In MultiComponent Systems 131
7. Atomic Models for Diffusion 145
8. Diffusion in Crystals 163
9. Diffusion Along Crystal Imperfections 209
10. Diffusion in Noncrystalline Materials 229
Part II: Motion of Dislocations and Interfaces
11. Motion of Dislocations 253
12. Motion of Crystalline Surfaces 285
13. Motion of Crystalline Interfaces 303
Part III Morphological Evolution Due To Capillary and Applied Mechanical Forces
14. Surface Evolution due to Capillary Forces 337
15. Coarsening due to Capillary Forces 363
16. Morphological Evolution, Diffusional Creep, and Sintering 387
Part IV: Phase Transformations
17. General Features of Phase Transformations 419
18. Spinodal and Order-Disorder Transformations 433
19. Nucleation 459
20. Growth of Phases in Concentration and Thermal Fields 501
21. Concurrent Nucleation and Growth 533
22. Solidification 543
23. Precipitation 555
24. Martensitic Transformations 563
Appendix A: Densities, Fractions, and Atomic Volumes of Components 587
Appendix B: Structure of Crystalline Interfaces 591
Appendix C: Capillarity and Mathematics of Space Curves and Interfaces 601
Illustration Credits 617
Cited Author Index 620
Figure Index 623
Topic Index 639
About the Author :
ROBERT W. BALLUFEI, SCD, is Professor of Physical Metallurgy, Emeritus, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
SAMUEL M, ALLEN. PHD, is Professor of Physical Metallurgy, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
W. CRAIG CARTER. PHD. is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
