SUBJECT
Title
Materials physics I
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
Thermodynamics of multicomponent systems. Lattice defects. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase diagrams, calculation of phase diagrams from free energy – composition functions. Ideal and regular solid solutions, factors determinig solid solubility. Diffusion in solids: mechanisms, correlation, Kirkendall-effect, Dareken-equations. Solidification, nucleation.
Readings
recommended readings:
- R. W. Cahn. P. Haasen: Physical metallurgy, Elsevier 1996
- J. W. Christian: The theory of transformations in metals and alloys, Pergamon 1975