- Structure of crystalline materials. Allotropy in pure metals.
- Structure of binary alloys, substitutional solid solutions, short range and long range ordering, interstitial solid solutions, intermediary phases, electron compounds, Laves phases and electrochemical compounds.
- Thermodynamics of phase transformations, one-component systems, effect of pressure on equilibrium. Binary solutions: ideal solutions, chemical potential, regular solutions, activity, equilibrium in heterogeneous systems, relationship between binary diagrams and Gibbs free energy curves, influence of interfaces on equilibrium.
- Kinetics of phase transformations. Arrhenius equation.
- Classification of phase transformations. First order and second order transformations.
- Solidification. Nucleation in pure metals: homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation, growth of thermal dendrites in pure metals, solidification of single-phase alloys.
- Solidification of binary alloys. Constitutional undercooling, dendritic growth, solidification of eutectic alloys, solidification of hypoeutectic and peritectic alloys, examples of solidification.
- Diffusional transformations in solids. Precipitation: homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation in solids, nucleation rate, growth and coarsening of precipitates, precipitation sequence, precipitation in age-hardening alloys. Discontinuous and continuous precipitation, interphase transformation.
- Thermodynamic and kinetic modelling of precipitation reactions. Kinetics of diffusional phase transformations: Johnson-Mehl-Avrami equation. TTT and CCT diagrams.
- Crystal interfaces in solids: coherent, semi-coherent and incoherent interfaces. Glissile interfaces. Interface migration.
- Homogeneous transformation: spinodal decomposition. Mechanisms of ordering transformations. Massive transformations. Pro-eutectoid and eutectoid transformations. Austenitizing. Bainitic transformation.
- Difussionless phase transformations. Athermal and isothermal transformations. Martensite nucleation and growth. Shape deformation at martensitic transformation, habit plane. Martensite crystallography in Fe – C alloys. Bain deformation. Martensite morphology in Fe – C alloys. Tempering of martensite in steels, tempering embrittlement.
- Deformation induced martensitic transformation. Thermoelastic martensitic transformation, self–accommodation martensite. Transformation and reorientation induced pseudoelasticity. Shape memory effect.
- Structure of binary alloys, substitutional solid solutions, short range and long range ordering, interstitial solid solutions, intermediary phases, electron compounds, Laves phases and electrochemical compounds.
- Thermodynamics of phase transformations, one-component systems, effect of pressure on equilibrium. Binary solutions: ideal solutions, chemical potential, regular solutions, activity, equilibrium in heterogeneous systems, relationship between binary diagrams and Gibbs free energy curves, influence of interfaces on equilibrium.
- Kinetics of phase transformations. Arrhenius equation.
- Classification of phase transformations. First order and second order transformations.
- Solidification. Nucleation in pure metals: homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation, growth of thermal dendrites in pure metals, solidification of single-phase alloys.
- Solidification of binary alloys. Constitutional undercooling, dendritic growth, solidification of eutectic alloys, solidification of hypoeutectic and peritectic alloys, examples of solidification.
- Diffusional transformations in solids. Precipitation: homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation in solids, nucleation rate, growth and coarsening of precipitates, precipitation sequence, precipitation in age-hardening alloys. Discontinuous and continuous precipitation, interphase transformation.
- Thermodynamic and kinetic modelling of precipitation reactions. Kinetics of diffusional phase transformations: Johnson-Mehl-Avrami equation. TTT and CCT diagrams.
- Crystal interfaces in solids: coherent, semi-coherent and incoherent interfaces. Glissile interfaces. Interface migration.
- Homogeneous transformation: spinodal decomposition. Mechanisms of ordering transformations. Massive transformations. Pro-eutectoid and eutectoid transformations. Austenitizing. Bainitic transformation.
- Difussionless phase transformations. Athermal and isothermal transformations. Martensite nucleation and growth. Shape deformation at martensitic transformation, habit plane. Martensite crystallography in Fe – C alloys. Bain deformation. Martensite morphology in Fe – C alloys. Tempering of martensite in steels, tempering embrittlement.
- Deformation induced martensitic transformation. Thermoelastic martensitic transformation, self–accommodation martensite. Transformation and reorientation induced pseudoelasticity. Shape memory effect.