ABSTRACT

With a history that reaches back some 90 years, the Hume-Rothery rules were developed to provide guiding principles in the search for new alloys. Ultimately, the rules bridged metallurgy, crystallography, and physics in a way that led to the emergence of a physics of the solid state in 1930s, although the physical implications of the rules were nev

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|12 pages

Early Theories of Alloy-Phase Stability

chapter 11|10 pages

Conclusions