This monograph describes mathematical models that enable prediction of phase compositions for various technological processes, as developed on the base of a complex physico-chemical analysis of reaction. It studies thermodynamics and kinetics of specific stages of complex pyrometallurgical processes involving boron, carbon, sulfur, tungsten, phosphorus, and many more, as well as their exposure to all sorts of factors. First and foremost, this enables to optimize processes and technologies at the stage of design, while traditional empirical means of development of new technologies are basically incapable of providing an optimal solution. Simulation results of metals and alloys production, welding and coating technologies allow obtaining materials with pre-given composition, structure and properties in a cost-saving and conscious manner. Moreover, a so-called "inverse problem", i.e., selecting source materials which would ensure the required results, cannot be solved by any other means.

Today modern materials science is a vibrant, emerging scientific discipline at the forefront of physics, chemistry, engineering, biology and medicine, and is becoming increasingly international in scope as demonstrated by emerging international and intercontinental collaborations and exchanges. The overall purpose of this book is to provide timely and in-depth coverage of selected advanced topics in materials science. Divided into five sections, this book provides the latest research developments in many aspects of materials science. This book is of interest to both fundamental research and also to practicing scientists and will prove invaluable to all chemical engineers, industrial chemists and students in industry and academia.

This book represents an extended introductory treatise on the atomic scale structure and physicochemical properties of oxide melts, mainly of silicates, from both the basic science and the applied engineering points of view. This helpful volume covers current experimental information on the structure of oxide melts and glasses and a convenient outline of their various physicochemical properties, including the subject "how structural data can be correlated with their macroscopic properties". This book also includes a fundamental introduction to the beneficial utilization of waste oxides largely produced from metal production in the world. This will be very useful for people working in the field of metallurgy and environmental science. Along with more than 300 references, numerous illustrations and tables, this is a unique source of information and guidance for specialists and non-specialists alike.

Contributed articles presented in the International Conference on Advances in the Theory of Ironmaking and Steelmaking; organized by the Dept. of Material Engineering, IISc., Bangalore.

From the TMS 2003 Annual Meeting & Exhibition symposium honoring the life's work of Professor Akira Yazawa, this book, the first in a three-volume collection, discusses recent developments in the physical chemistry of metallurgical processes and physicochemical principles involved in materials processing, with a focus on materials processing fundamentals and new technologies. This volume is part of a three-volume set. You may purchase any volume individual or you may purchase the entire three-volume set in its entirety as listed below: Three-Volume Set : Metallurgical and Materials Processing Principles and Technologies (Yazawa International Symposium) Volume 1: Materials Processing Fundamentals and New Technologies Volume 2: High-Temperature Metal Production Volume 3: Aqueous and Electrochemical Processing A collection of papers from the 2003 TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition, which was held in San Diego, California, March 2-6, 2003.