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.

Textures of Materials - ICOTOM 14

Edited by: Paul Van Houtte and Leo Kestens

Online since: September 2005

Description: To the materials science community, Texture is an important property which describes the relative orientations of the various material elements which constitute the microstructure. These elements are usually the crystalline grains; each with a different orientation of its crystal lattice. However, morphological textures, such as the arrangement of fibers in a composite material, also have to be considered. In rare cases, the texture is random; with all possible orientations being equally represented in the material. But, usually, processing of the material has caused the texture to become non-random; with a consequent anisotropy of the material properties. Thus, not only metallurgists and materials scientists take an interest in textures, but also physicists, mathematicians, geologists, mechanical engineers and others.