Description: Grain Growth is one of the most fundamental microstructural changes, and occurs in all types of polycrystalline material. It is of major scientific interest, and of great importance in a wide range of industrial applications.

Defect and Diffusion Forum Vols. 131-132

Edited by: Graeme E. Murch

Online since: March 1996

Description: Journal issue

Advances in Corrosion-Deformation Interactions

Edited by: Thierry Magnin

Online since: January 1996

Description: For more then one century it has been observed that stress corrosion cracking (SCC) and corrosion fatigue (CF) corresponds to synergetic effects between corrosion and mechanics. Researchers and engineers have tried to translate such effects through empirical damage laws, in particular to predict crack velocities in metallic materials for the nuclear, aeronautical and chemical industries. Nevertheless the precise nature of these synergetic effects is still difficult to determine and quantify, mainly because of the localization of the damage events.
One of the objective of the current publication is to review in details what is known about these deleterious synergetic effects which lead to SCC and CF. The matter of the book clearly corresponds to an interdisciplinary field. Bases in materials science, corrosion, theory of dislocations and chemistry of surfaces are supposed to be known, even if some elements will be briefly introduced.

Nonequilibrium Materials

Edited by: J. Lendvai

Online since: May 1995

Description: Nonequilibrium materials have always been of particular importance in materials science and application since most of the structural materials commonly used are not in the condition of stable equilibrium.

Defect and Diffusion Forum Vols. 127-128

Edited by: Graeme E. Murch

Online since: March 1995

Description: Journal issue

Quasicrystals and Imperfectly Ordered Crystals

Edited by: K.H. Kuo and S. Takeuchi

Online since: January 1994

Description: In 1994 we will mark the tenth anniversary of the discovery of quasicrystals, aperiodic crystals which lie outside the framework of traditional crystallography and which have disturbed the theory and practice of solid state physics, bringing in new perspectives. Already a substantial international community working on this topic has developed, with its own social structure, and it is time to assess the progress of the past decade and to consider future possibilities.

Dislocations '93

Edited by: J. Rabier, A. George, Y. Bréchet and L. Kubin

Online since: September 1993

Description: This publication bears witness of a renewal of the studies on dislocations. The texts of the lectures as well as those of the contributions illustrate, indeed, the wide spectrum of the present concerns. The openings towards physics, mechanics, even electrochemistry or geology, the new experimental approaches will certainly benefit to the investigation of new materials and complex situations.

Diffusion in Materials - DIMAT 1992

Edited by: M. Koiwa, K. Hirano, H. Nakajima and T. Okada

Online since: January 1993

Description: Defect and Diffusion Forum Vols. 95-98