MATE 3140: Kinetics and Phase Equilibria in Materials
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: MATE 2140; MATE 2160; MATE 3110
Kinetic phenomena and phase equilibria relevant to the origins and stability of microstructure in metallic, ceramic and polymeric systems. Application of thermodynamics to the understanding of stable and metastable phase equilibria, interfaces and their effects on stability: defects and diffusion, empirical rate equations for transformation kinetics, driving forces and kinetics of nucleation, diffusional and diffusionless phase transformations.
(Typically Offered: Spring)