SUBJECT

Title

Materials physics I

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

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