Subject Code: ML3L004 Subject Name: Phase transformation of materials L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): Thermodynamics of Materials, Physical metallurgy
Temperature composition diagram, Binary phase diagram construction; Interfaces : interphase and grain boundary concepts; Interfacial movement: low and high angle boundaries; Solidification: homogenous and heterogenous nucleation conditions, rate of nucleation, growth, Scheil equation derivation, constitutional and thermal super-cooling, dendritic solidification principles, eutectic solidification; Diffusional transformations: Nucleation, heterogenous nucleation sites, nucleation rate, growth, surface energy effects; Introduction to spinodaldecomposition, eutectoid and massive transformations; Non-diffusional transformations: nucleation conditions, growth; Martensitic transformation characteristics
Text/Reference Books:
  • D.A. Porter, K. E. Easterling and M.Y. Sherif, Phase Transformation in Metals and Alloys, 3rd Edition, CRC Press, 2009.
  • D.R. Gaskell, Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials, , 5th Edition, CRC Press, 2008.