Phase diagrams binary alloys

Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams, 2nd edition, editor-in-chief T. B. Massalski, ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, (1990). 

Figure 2. The connected schematic binary alloy phase diagrams for the light actinides. The diagrams for Ac through U and for AmCm are estimates based upon the pure elements.

Massalski, T.B., Murray, J.L., Bennett, L.H., and Baker, H. (1986) Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams, American Society for Metals, Metals Park, OH, p. 1807. 

More complex situations were shown in Figs. 2.26 and 2.27, where some typical examples of isobarothermal sections of ternary alloy phase diagrams were presented. In the case of ternary systems, several binary and ternary stoichiometric (Fig. 2.28) phases and/or different types of variable composition phases (Fig. 2.29) may be found. We may differentiate between these phases by using terms such as point compounds (or point phases, that is, phases represented in the composition triangle, or more generally in the composition simplex by points), Tine phases , field phases , etc. 

Let us examine a real alloy phase diagram. Figure 2.4 is the binary phase diagram for the system Cu-Ni. First of all, note that the composition is indicated in terms of weight fraction of one of the components, in this case Ni, and not mole fraction. The conversion between the two is straightforward if the molecular weights are known, and weight fraction is used only because it is more useful experimentally than mole fraction. 

The massive task required that data be sorted into categories by some thirty editors. The first comprehensive publication to be released thus far is from the American Society for Metals (ASM International), entitled Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams." which contains up-to-date and comprehensive phase diagram information for more than 1850 alloy systems, representing the first major release of critically evaluated phase diagrams since 1969. 

Fig. 1. Representative binary alloy phase diagrams (ai the Au-Si phase diagram with compositions in atomic percent (b) the Au-Si phase diagram with compositions in weight percent. (ASM News)...

Massoiski, T.B. Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams, American Society for Metals. Metals Park. OH, 1986. 

Handbook of Binary Alloys Phase Diagrams, T.B. Massalski, Ed. (ASM, Materials Park, OH, 1993). 

Massalski, T.B., editor. Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams. Metals Park, OH Amer. Soc. Metals 1986. Mazzone, D., Rossi, D., Marazza, R., Ferro, R. J. Less-Common Met. 1982, 84,301. 

Binary alloy phase diagrams / Edited by T.B. Massalski, J.L. Murray, L.H. Bennett and H. Baker - Metals Park, Ohio ASM, 1986.- V.l. 

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