“Principles of Solidification” offers comprehensive descriptions of liquid-to-solid transitions encountered in shaped casting, welding, and non-biological bulk crystal growth processes. The book logically develops through careful presentation of relevant thermodynamic and kinetic theories and models of solidification occurring in a variety of materials. Major topics encompass the liquid-state, liquid-solid transformations, chemical macro- and microsegregation, purification by fractional crystallization and zone refining, solid-liquid interfaces, polyphase freezing, and rapid solidification processing. Solid-liquid interfaces are discussed quantitatively both as sharp and diffuse entities, with supporting differential geometric descriptions. The book offers: • Detailed mathematical examples throughout to guide readers • Applications of solidification and crystal growth methodologies for preparation and purification of metals, ceramics, polymers and semiconductors • Appendices providing supporting information on special topics covered in the chapters. Readers in materials, metallurgical, chemical, and mechanical engineering will find this to be a useful source on the subjects of solidification and crystal growth. Chemists, physicists, and geologists concerned with melting/freezing phenomena will also find much of value in this book.

Current interest in research of solidification of melts is focussed to understand crystal nucleation and crystal growth. They determine the solidified product with its physical properties. A detailed description of these processes lead to the development and validation of physical models, which may form the basis of quantitative modelling of solidification routes in e.g. casting and foundry processes in order to develop a predictive capability in the design of materials during solidification. This book, based on a symposium held at EUROMAT 2003 aims to gives an overview on current developments in the research of solidification and crystallisation of liquids. The materials of interest range from metals and their alloys over semiconductors and isolators to organic substances.

The cover of this iteration (previous, 1989; first, 1984) features a snowflake-like dendrite, as typically seen on the surface of a polished section of a solidified alloy. Kurtz (materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lusanne) and Fisher (editor, Diffusion and Defect Data, Scitec Publications; Uetikon- Zurich, Switzerland) explain how such solidification phenomena play an important role in many of the processes used in fields ranging from production engineering to solid-state physics, before proceeding to the specifics of: atom transfer and morphological instability at the solid/liquid interface, solidification microstructures, and solute redistribution. A cursory overview can be derived from the text and figure captions; appendices supply the mathematical derivations and physical properties. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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