ABSTRACT

This book focuses on the role of modeling in the design of alloys and intermetallic compounds. It includes an introduction to the most important and most used modeling techniques, such as CALPHAD and ab-initio methods, as well as a section devoted to the latest developments in applications of alloys. The book emphasizes the correlation between modeling and technological developments while discussing topics such as wettability of Ultra High Temperature Ceramics by metals, active brazing of diamonds to metals in cutting tools, surface issues in medicine, novel Fe-based superconductors, metallic glasses, high entropy alloys, and thermoelectric materials.

part 1|1 pages

Modeling Techniques and Prediction of Properties

chapter 1_1|41 pages

Computational Thermodynamics

From Experiments to Applications

chapter 1_3|31 pages

The Formation Volume in Rare Earth Intermetallic Systems

A Representation by Means of Atomic Physical Quantities

part 2|1 pages

Role of Modeling on the Design of Alloys and Intermetallic Compounds

chapter 2_2|25 pages

Metal Surfaces in Medicine

Current Knowledge of Properties, Modeling and Biological Response

chapter 2_3|24 pages

Fe-based Superconductors

Crystallochemistry, Band Structure and Phase Diagrams

chapter 2_6|27 pages

Shape Memory Alloys

Constitutive Modeling and Engineering Simulations

chapter 2_8|32 pages

Skutterudites for Thermoelectric Applications

Properties, Synthesis and Modeling