Fundamentals of Solidification

Download or read book Fundamentals of Solidification written by W. Kurz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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