Books by Keyword: Orientation Relationship

Description: The main objective of this special collection was to present state-of-the-art advances in the field of solid-solid phase transformations.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The 204 peer-reviewed papers were divided into 10 chapters:
1: Displacive Transformations,
2: Diffusional Transformations,
3: Transition by Interface Migration,
4: Order-Disorder Transitions,
5: Phase Transitions and Size Effect,
6: Driven Systems and Phase Transformations,
7: Phase Transformations during Industrial Processing,
8: Amorphous Alloys, Quasicrystals and other Complex Phases,
9: Advances in the Theory and Modeling of Phase Transitions,
10: Advances in Experimental Techniques.
The present work will be a useful supplement to the classic textbooks on the subject.

Description: The great majority of solid-state materials – natural as well as man-made ones – have a polycrystalline structure. They consist of crystallites having various sizes, shapes and crystallographic orientations. Because of the anisotropy of crystal properties, the material as a whole may also be anisotropic if the orientation distribution of the crystallites is not random. Furthermore, because of the differently oriented anisotropies of neighbouring crystals, the material is also micro-inhomogeneous. Macroscopic anisotropy and micro-inhomogeneity are thus fundamental properties of all polycrystalline materials. Therefore, the study of preferred crystal orientations, or crystallographic texture, is of major interest in research and industrial applications. Analysis of the crystal texture is now a well-established tool for quality control and failure analysis in industry, as well as in academic research, because of the ready availability of commercial equipment and refined computer programs.

Description: Dislocations were introduced into crystal physics, and particularly into the theory of plasticity, in 1934. For many years, they were the field of speculation of a small group of specialists, not considered seriously by real physicists and metallurgists. After W.T. Read Jr's fundamental work in 1953 and further developments by Cottrel, Friedel, Frank and Hirsch, dislocations had become part of the working vocabulary of solid-state physics and metallurgy.