Statistical Thermodynamics Of Alloys
by N.A. Gokcen /
2012 / English / PDF
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This book is intended for scientists, researchers, and graduate
students interested in solutions in general, and solutions of
metals in particular. Readers are assumed to have a good background
in thermodynamics, presented in such books as those cited at the
end of Chapter 1, "Thermo dynamic Background." The contents of the
book are limited to the solutions of metals + metals, and metals +
metalloids, but the results are also appli cable to numerous other
types of solutions encountered by metallurgists, materials
scientists, geologists, ceramists, and chemists. Attempts have been
made to cover each topic in depth with numerical examples whenever
necessary. Chapter 2 presents phase equilibria and phase diagrams
as related to the thermodynamics of solutions. The emphasis is on
the binary diagrams since the ternary diagrams can be understood in
terms of the binary diagrams coupled with the phase rule, and the
Gibbs energies of mixing. The cal culation of thermodynamic
properties from the phase diagrams is not emphasized because such a
procedure generally yields mediocre results. Nevertheless, the
reader can readily obtain thermodynamic data from phase diagrams by
reversing the detailed process of calculation of phase diagrams
from thermodynamic data. Empirical rules on phase stability are
given in this chapter for a brief and clear understanding of the
physical and atomistic factors underlying the alloy phase
formation.
This book is intended for scientists, researchers, and graduate
students interested in solutions in general, and solutions of
metals in particular. Readers are assumed to have a good background
in thermodynamics, presented in such books as those cited at the
end of Chapter 1, "Thermo dynamic Background." The contents of the
book are limited to the solutions of metals + metals, and metals +
metalloids, but the results are also appli cable to numerous other
types of solutions encountered by metallurgists, materials
scientists, geologists, ceramists, and chemists. Attempts have been
made to cover each topic in depth with numerical examples whenever
necessary. Chapter 2 presents phase equilibria and phase diagrams
as related to the thermodynamics of solutions. The emphasis is on
the binary diagrams since the ternary diagrams can be understood in
terms of the binary diagrams coupled with the phase rule, and the
Gibbs energies of mixing. The cal culation of thermodynamic
properties from the phase diagrams is not emphasized because such a
procedure generally yields mediocre results. Nevertheless, the
reader can readily obtain thermodynamic data from phase diagrams by
reversing the detailed process of calculation of phase diagrams
from thermodynamic data. Empirical rules on phase stability are
given in this chapter for a brief and clear understanding of the
physical and atomistic factors underlying the alloy phase
formation.
