COURSE DESCRIPTION
CHAPTER 1. REVIEW OF THERMODYNAMICS
1.1. Equilibrium
1.2. Single component system
1.3. Binary Solutions
1.4. Equilibrium in Heterogeneous Systems
1.5. The Influence of Interfaces on Equilibrium
CHAPTER 2. DIFFUSION
2.1. Diffusion phenomenology
2.2. Atomic mechanisms of diffusion
2.3. Interstitial diffusion
2.4. Substitutional diffusion
2.5. Atomic mobility
2.6. Diffusion in ternary alloys
2.7. Diffusion in multiphase binary systems
CHAPTER 3. SURFACES AND INTERFACES
3.1. Interface free energy
3.2. Solid/vapour interface
3.3. Boundaries in single–phase solids
3.4. Interphase interfaces in solids
3.5. Interface Migration
CHAPTER 4. SOLIDIFICATION
4.1. Homo– and hetero–geneous nucleations
4.3. Alloy Solidification
CHAPTER 5. PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS (DIFFUSIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOLIDS) 
5.1. Homogeneous Nucleation in Solids
5.2. Heterogeneous nucleation
5.3. Precipitate growth
5.4. Overall Transformation kinetics – TTT Diagram
5.5. Precipitation in age–hardening alloys
5.6. The precipitation of ferrite from austenite
5.7. Cellular precipitation
5.8. Eutectoid transformation
5.9. Massive transformation
5.10. Ordering transformation
CHAPTER 6. DIFFUSIONLESS (MARTENSITIC) TRANSFORMATIONS
6.1. Characteristics of Diffusionless transformations
6.2. Martensite Crystallography
6.3. Theory of martensite nucleation
6.4. Martensite growth
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