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Title of the course

MM 691: Topics in Phase Transformations

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Credit structure

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Pre-requisite, if any

None

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Course content

Gibbs free energy composition diagrams, Analysis and synthesis of phase diagrams. Solid-solid mucleation theory. Interface and diffusion and kinetics of phase separation. Order-disorder transformations. Crystallography of martensitic transformation. Transformations of rapidly solidified alloys and glasses. Phase stability in advanced ceramics. High pressure phase transformations. Phase transformations in Steels.

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Texts/References

H.I. Aaronson(ed.) Lectures on the theory of Phase transformation, The Metallurgical Society(AIME), Warrendale, Pennysylvania, 1975.J.W. Christian, " Theory of Transformations in Metals and Alloys", Pergamon Press, 1965.P.Haasen(Ed.), Phase Transformations in Materials, VCH Publishers Inc, New York,1991.T.J. Gray and V.D. Frechette, "Kinetics of REactions in Ionic Crystals", Plenum Press, 1969.A.G. Khachaturyan," Thoery of Structural Transformations in Solids", Wiley Interscience Publishers,1983.A.M. Alper, "Phase Diagrams:Material Science and Technology", Vol6, Academic Press, 1978.

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Instructor(s) name

Prof. N.Prabhu