The selected works of John W. Cahn / / edited by W. Craig Carter and William C. Johnson

• Record Nr.: UNISA996205778803316
• Autore: Cahn John W. <1928->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Warrendale, Pennsylvania : , : TMS, , [1998]; ©1998
• ISBN: 1-118-78829-X; 1-118-78825-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (590 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CarterW. Craig; JohnsonWilliam C
• Disciplina: 620.1/1
• Soggetti: Materials science - United States; Materials scientists - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Forward; Table of Contents; List of Rapporteurs; Biographical Sketch of John W. Cahn; List of Publications: John W. Cahn; Reflections on Diffuse Interfaces and Spinodal Decomposition; 1. The Kinetics of Grain Boundary Nucleated Reactions; Introduction; Article (1956); 2. Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free Energy; Introductions; 3. Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. III. Nucleation in a Two-Component Incompressible Fluid; Article (1958); Article (1959); 4. Theory of Crystal Growth and Interface Motion in Crystalline Materials; IntroductionArticle (1960); 5. An Evaluation of Procedures in Quantitative Metallography for Volume-Fraction Analysis; Introduction; Article (1961); 6. On Spinodal Decomposition; Introductions; 7. Spinodal Decomposition; Article (1961); Article (1968); 8. Coherent Fluctuations and Nucleation in Isotropie Solids; Introduction; Article (1962); 9. The Impurity-Drag Effect in Grain Boundary Motion; Introduction; Article (1962); 10. Theory of the Pearlite Reaction; Introduction; Article (1962); 11. Magnetic Aging of Spinodal Alloys; Introduction; Article (1963); 12. The Molecular Mechanism of SolidificationIntroduction; Article (1964); 13. The Massive Transformation in Copper-Zinc Alloys; Introduction; Article (1969); 14. The Thermodynamics of Solidification; Introduction; Article (1971); 15. A Vector Thermodynamics for Anisotropie Surfaces; I. Fundamentals and Applications to Plane Surface Junctions; Introductions; Article (1972); 16. A Vector Thermodynamics for Anisotropie Surfaces; II. Curved and Facetted Surfaces; Article(1974); 17. Discontinuous Coarsening of Aligned Eutectoids; Introduction; Article (1974); 18. Mechanisms of Phase Transformation Within the Miscibility Gap of Fe-Rich Fe-Al AlloysIntroduction; Article (1976); 19. Critical Point Wetting; Introduction; Article (1977); 20. A Microscopic Theory of Domain Wall Motion and Its Experimental Verification in Fe-Al Alloy Domain Growth Kinetics; Introduction; Article (1977); 21. Thermodynamics of Solid and Fluid Surfaces; Introduction; Article (1978); 22. An Interface Phase Transition: Complete to Partial Wetting; Introduction; Article (1980); 23. Transitions and Phase Equilibria Among Grain Boundary Structures; Introduction; Article (1982); 24. A Metallic Phase with Long-Ranged Orientational Order and No Translational SymmetryIntroduction; Article (1984); 25. Elastically Induced Shape Bifurcations of Inclusions; Introduction; Article (1984); 26. The Interactions of Composition and Stress in Crystalline Solids; Introduction; Article (1985); 27. A 6-D Structural Model for the Icosahedral (Al,Si)-Mn Quasicrystal; Introduction; Article (1988); 28. Geometric Models of Crystal Growth; Introduction; Article (1992); 29. Crystal Shapes and Phase Equilibria: A Common Mathematical Basis; Introduction; Article (1996); 30. The Time Cone Method for Nucleation and Growth Kinetics on a Finite Domain
• Sommario/riassunto: This book represents a collection of 30 selected papers from the work of John W. Cahn. Dr. Cahn is Senior Fellow at the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and is widely recognized as a founder of modern theory and thought in materials science. The range of his research included kinetics and mechanisms of metallurgical phase changes, surfaces, interfaces, defects, quasicrystals, thermodynamics, and other areas impacting the fundamental understanding of materials science. Each paper includes a 2-4 page review of the impact and hi