Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys

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Summary: Excellent Text Book
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This is one of those rare gems of a text that delivers information almost every time you look at it. Strongly recommended for students of materials science or researchers who are working with mats. sci. or metallurgy. There are comprehensive sections on nucleation and diffusion, topics that are often mentioned but rarely explained to a sufficient degree. The section on thermodynamics provides enough relevant information to bring home the point that there is more to thermo than "a piston in a chamber with a permeable wall...(etc etc etc)" . It is a particularly useful reference for free energy considerations when examining phase transformations in solids, as the title plainly states!

This book should be handed off to students in materials science on principle (but only if they promise to read it).

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Summary: A must have for any Mat.Sci. student...
Review: ...this book is the only text suited for a materials science class in phase transformations. A great introduction to the subject.

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Summary: Asking for answer-key
Review: Dear sir,

I am a lecturer of University of Indonesia in Metalurgical Engineering.
I use this book as a teaching reference and found it very useful.
I would like to have a copy of the answer-key of the exercises in your book.
Please send me to the following address:

Ir.Esa Haruman, Msc(eng),Ph.D.
Jalan Raya Tanjung Barat No.83
Pasar Minggu
Jakarta Selatan
Indonesia
12530

Telp/Fax: [phone]

Also let me know a cost of compensation

Your sincerely,

Esa Haruman

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Summary: Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys
Review: This a good book for students in material science. I think that should be reimpressed again.

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Summary: The best there is
Review: This book is the best for undegraduate or early graduate phase transformations courses.

Porter and Easterling start by covering the fundamentals: Basic thermodynamics, Diffusion and crystal interfaces. These three subjects give you the background to understand the rest of the book. They then cover solidificaiton reactions, diffusional solid/solid and diffusionless (martensitic) solid/solid reactions.

This book, clearly and concisely, conver all the high points of the subject of phase transformations, and lays the foundation for your sudy of the subjects based on PT's: casting, thermomechanical processing, etc.

If you are a material scientist, YOU MUST HAVE THIS BOOK.

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Summary: A very useful book for materials science people
Review: This is a very comprehensive book on phase transformations from a materials scientist point of view. Without going deeply into the math of the theory of phase transitions, which is repulsively complex, the authors have taken a pragmatic approach using a simple, easy-to-understand and straight forward style. Not much pre-requisite knowledge is required for this book though some background in materials thermodynamics will definitely be helpful. A must for grad-students, professors and practitioners of materials science.