Since the 4th 1998 edition, there have been numerous crucial advances to the modelling and the basic understanding of solidification phenomena, and with its linking to experimental results. These topics have been incorporated into this 5th Fully Revised Edition, as well as a new final chapter on microstructure selection which explains how to combine the concepts of the preceding chapters for modelling real microstructures, in complex processes such as additive manufacturing.With its numerous new topics - also borne out by the new authorship - students and teachers, scientists and engineers will greatly benefit from this new book. The topics are presented in the same praised manner as in previous editions, readable at three levels:- an initial feel for the subject is obtained by consulting the figures and their detailed captions;- a deeper understanding of the underlying physics is found by working through the main text;- 15 appendices offer a detailed analysis of the various theories, by providing detailed derivations of the relevant equations.Particularly Novel: the final chapter 8 on microstructure-selection explains how to combine the concepts of the preceding chapters to model the real microstructures formed during complex processes such as additive manufacturing, and the new detailed phase-field appendix which opens the door to the accurate computer-modelling of growth-forms.This new 5th edition is of high interest to undergraduate and graduate levels and professionals. For orders you are welcome to download the Order Form.
Author(s): Wilfried Kurz, David J. Fisher, Michel Rappaz
Edition: 5
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 347
City: Zürich
Fundamentals of Solidification 5th Edition
Foreword
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Atom Transfer at the Solid-Liquid Interface
Chapter Three: Morphological Instability of a Solid/Liquid Interface
Chapter Four: Solidification Microstructure: Cells and Dendrites
Chapter Five: Solidification Microstructure: Eutectic and Peritectic
Chapter Six: Solute Redistribution
Chapter Seven: Rapid Solidification Microstructures
Chapter Eight: Solidification Microstructure Selection Maps
Appendix 1: Mathematical Modelling of Solidification at the Macroscopic Scale
Appendix 2: Analytical Solute and Heat Flux Calculations Related to Microstructure Formation
Appendix 3: Local Equilibrium at the Solid/Liquid Interface
Appendix 4: Nucleation Kinetics in a Pure Substance
Appendix 5: Atomic Structure of the Solid/Liquid Interface
Appendix 6: Thermodynamics of Rapid Solidification
Appendix 7: Analysis of Morphological Interface Stability
Appendix 8: Diffusion at a Dendrite Tip
Appendix 9: Dendrite Tip Radius and Spacing
Appendix 10: Eutectic Growth
Appendix 11: Transients in Solute Diffusion
Appendix 12: Mass Balance Equations
Appendix 13: Homogenisation of Interdendritic Segregation in the Solid State
Appendix 14: Introduction to the Phase-Field Method
Appendix 15: Relevant Physical Properties for Solidification
Symbols
Keyword Index
