Overall Rate of Discontinuous Transformation

In previous chapters we have developed models for discontinuous transformations that treat nucleation and growth processes independently. However, when 

Kinetics of Materials. By Robert W. Balluffi, Samuel M. Allen, and W. Craig Carter. 533 Copyright 2005 John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

The theory of the kinetics of concurrent nucleation and growth reactions has a rich history that includes work by Kolmogorov [1], Johnson and Mehl [2], Avrami [3-5], Jackson [6], and Cahn [7]. Cahn s time-cone method for treating a class of these problems is the most general of these, with the most transparent assumptions, and is presented here. The method of Johnson, Mehl, and Avrami is covered in Section 4 of Christian s text [8]. 

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