Mats Hillert

Phase Equilibria, Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations

Contents

1. Basic concepts of thermodynamics

2. Manipulations of thermodynamic quantities

3. Systems with variable composition

4. Evaluation and use of driving force

5. Stability

6. Applications of molar Gibbs energy diagrams

7. Phase equilibria and potential phase diagrams

8. Molar phase diagrams

9. Projected and mixed phase diagrams

10. Direction of phase boundaries

11. Sharp and gradual phase transformations

12. Transformations at constant composition

13. Partitionless transformations

14. Limit of stability, critical phenomena and interfaces

15. Methods of modelling

16. Modelling of disorder

17. Mathematical modelling of solution phases

18. Solution phases with sublattices

19. Physical solution models