CALPHAD journal

This book is intended to be a comprehensive guide to what has become known as CALPHAD. This is an acronym for the CALcuIation of PHAse Diagrams but it is also well defined by the sub-title of the CALPHAD journal. The Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry. It is this coupling which, more than any other factor, defines the heart of this subject area. 

CALPHAD Inc. was duly incorporated in Massachusetts in 1975. One of the first fund-raising options to be pursued was the possibility of publishing a journal which would act as a focus for papers in this newly emerging field. This eventually came to fruition with the publication of the CALPHAD journal by Pergamon Press in 1977. The growth of CALPHAD activities was now clearly accelerating and an Alloy Data Centre formed at the NBS included CALPHAD calculations as one of its inputs. 

The second event of 1977 was the publication of the first volume of the CALPHAD joiuTial, which both acted as a cumulative record of progress in making calculations and as an invaluable depository of validated parameters. The aim of the journal was not primarily to be a vehicle for publicity, but it was very useful to have the first issue of the CALPHAD journal available for distribution at the NBS meeting. There was no mandatory requirement to publish the papers and discussions presented at the CALPHAD conferences in the journal. Nevertheless, subsequent issues in the first year of publication of the CALPHAD journal included several key papers given at previous meetings, together with summaries of these... 

Kaufman was with the Lincoln Laboratory at M. I. T. from 1955 to 1958, ManLabs from 1958 to 1988, and Alcan Aluminum Corporation from 1988 to 1996. Kaufman derived expressions for thermochemical lattice stabilities for allotropic and nonallotropic elements. He provided an early model for the thermodynamic description of iron, including magnetic contributions, and he was the founding editor of the CALPHAD journal. Kaufman is now a consultant and lecturer in the materials science and engineering department at M. I. T. 

CALPHAD (a journal), published quarterly since 1979, Pergamon Press, Oxford. 

CALPHAD Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry, The International Research Journal for Calculation of Phase Diagrams, published quarterly by Elsevier. 

Saunders, N. 1998. CALPHAD (Calculation of Phase Diagrams) A Comprehensive Guide. Oxford, U.K./New York Pergamon. This is an in-depth treatment of the method of computer coupling of phase diagrams and thermochemistry, which makes it possible to calculate the phase behavior of multicomponent materials. See also the journal CALPHAD that publishes new developments quarterly. Available online through various services. 

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