Properties of Complex Inorganic Solids 2

The triennial International Alloy Conferences (lACs) aim at the identification and promotion of the common elements developed in the study, either experimental, phenomenological, or theoretical and computational, of materials properties across materials types, from metals to minerals. To accomplish this goal, the lACs bring together scientists from a wide spectrum of materials science including experiment, theory, modeling, and computation, incorporating a broad range of materials properties. The first lAC, lAC-I, took place in Athens, Greece, June 16-21, 1996. The present volume of proceedings contains the papers presented at IAC-2, that took place in Davos, Switzerland, August 8-13, 1999. The topics in this book fall into several themes, which suggest a number of different classification schemes. We have chosen a scheme that classifies the papers in the volume into the categories Microstructural Properties; Ordering, Kinetics and Diffusion; Magnetic Properties and Elastic Properties. We have juxtaposed apparently disparate of revealing the dynamic character approaches to similar physical processes, in the hope of the processes under consideration. We hope this will invigorate new kinds of discussion and reveal challenges and new avenues to the description and prediction of properties of materials in the solid state and the conditions that produce them.

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Preface. Microstructural Properties. Fast ionic transport along twin walls in ferroelastic minerals; E.K.H. Salje. Dependence of carbide precipitation on grain boundary structure in sensitized austenitic stainless steel; H. Kokawa, et al. Grain Boundary engineering for the control of oxygen embrittlement; S. Yamaura, et al. Self-assembly in epitaxial semiconductor alloys; K. Rajan, et al. Electromigration and electronic structure; A. Lodder, J.P. Dekker. Ordering. Ab initio study of vacancies in metals and compounds; P.A. Khorzhavyi, et al. Order and disorder phenomena at surfaces of binary alloys; F.F. Haas, et al. Analytical description of the short-range order in alloys with many-body atomic interactions; R.V. Chepulskii. Changes in the atomic coordinates and state of anion and cation order induced by alloying in Y2[M(2)YM(1)1-Y]2O7 pyrochlore solid solutions sytems; B.J. Wuensch, K.W. Eberman. Ordering kinetics in B2-FeAl; H. Lang, et al. Theoretical study of spinodal disordering and disordering relaxation; T. Mohri. Kinetics and Diffusion. Using arrested-solid multiphase reactions in geological materials to deduce the rate of crustal uplift; W.E. Glassley, A. Meike. Kinetic features of non-simplest alloy orderings: DO3, L12, and L10 orderings; K.D. Belashenko, et al. Inetics of phase separation in a binary alloy: influence of the atomic mobilities; M. Athenes, et al. Point defect energies in L12-ordered Ni3Al; H. Schweiger, et al. Tests of the polymorphous coherent potential approximation; J.S. Faulkner, et al. Phase Stability and Transformation. Iron phase diagram and high pressure and temperatures; S.K. Saxena, L.S. Dubrovinsky. Effects of continuous atomic displacement on the phase stability of metallic alloys; K. Masuda-Jindo, et al. Maximization of cluster entropies via an irreversible algorithm: Application to the cluster variation method; V.L. Vinograd, et al. CVM Calculations of the solid-state equilibria in the Fe-Co phase diagram; C. Colinet, A. Antoni-Zdziobek. Onsager cavity field in FCC alloys; S. Shallcross, B.L. Fyörffy. In-situ chemical dynamics and phase mapping under steep thermal gradients using time-resolved and spatially resolved diffraction; J. Wong, et al. Development and properties of &egr;-martensite in Co-Cr-Mo alloys for biomaterials applications; H.F. Lopez, et al. Magnetic Properties. Diffuse scattering of Cu3Au displacements and Fermi surface effects; W. Schweika, et al. Ab initio theory of perpendicular transport in metallic magnetic multilayers; J. Kudrnovsky, et al. The Fermi surfaces of metallic alloys and the oscillatory magnetic coupling between agnetic layers separated by such alloy spacers; B.L. Györffy, N.N. Lathiotakis. On element-specific magnetometry with linear dichroism in photoemission; F.O. Schumann, et al. Elastic Properties. Deformation and fracture of TiC/Mo(Nb) in-situ composites; S. Hanada, et al. Doubled fatigued strength of box welds by using low transformation temperature welding material; A. Ohta, et al. The evaluation of the fracture strain of ITO films on polymeric substrates; Z. Chen, et al. Ab initio study of structure and compressibility of garnets; V. Milman, et al. Short-range ordering kinetics and microstructural development during post-deformation annealing; M. Spanl, et al. Point defects in NiAl alloys under pressure