Phase-Transformation Diagrams

Figure 4 presents the isothermal phase transformation diagram of the template-free syntheses in which the SiCL/Alo ratio and the time t of crytallization are varied. The Siof/Nafcr and l O/SiCL ratios are 10 and 30, respectively. The pentasil phase could only be synthesized for n = SiC /A O, =30-50 and t = 36 - 72 h. Outside of this area amorphous material, mordenite, sheet structures similar to kenyaite, quartz and crystobalite can be found. For values of n less than 25 the crytalline product is mordenite. For 30 < n < 50 a yield of 95% (related to the SiC content) ZSM-5 type, which was proved by X-ray diffraction pattern, could be found. Depending on n and the crystallization time, t, a more or less large amount of amorphous material is produced. This is shown in Figure 5. A long crystallization time causes recrystallization and is harmful to the yield of ZSM-5 products.

Figure 4. Isothermal phase transformation diagram of the template free syntheses. SS denotes sheet structures.

M. Hillert, Phase Equilibria, Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1998. 

The diagrams that will be mainly considered are those concerning the behaviour of the alloys in the liquid and solid states that is, melting and solid-state transformation diagrams. A number of different diagram types can be defined and classified on the basis of the different mutual solubility of the components (in the liquid and in the solid state with the formation of more or less extended liquid and/or solid solutions) and of their reactivity, resulting in the formation of various, so-called intermediate phases . 

Calculation, thermodynamic optimization of phase diagrams. The knowledge of phase equilibria, phase stability, phase transformations is an important reference point in the description and understanding of the fundamental properties of the alloys and of their possible technological applications. This interest has promoted a multi-disciplinary and multi-national effort dedicated not only to experimental methods, but also to techniques of optimization, calculation and prediction of... 

Pelton, A.D. (1991) Thermodynamics and phase diagrams of materials. In Phase Transformations in Materials, Vol. 5 Materials Science and Technology A Comprehensive Treatment, eds. Cahn, R.W, Haasen, P. and Kramer, E J. (VCH, Weinheim). 

Characteristics and implementation of the treatments depend on the expected results and on the properties of the material considered a variety of processes are employed. In ferrous alloys, in steels, a eutectoid transformation plays a prominent role, and aspects described by time-temperature-transformation diagrams and martensite formation are of relevant interest. See a short presentation of these points in 5.10.4.5. Titanium alloys are an example of the formation of structures in which two phases may be present in comparable quantities. A few remarks about a and (3 Ti alloys and the relevant heat treatments have been made in 5.6.4.1.1. More generally, for the various metals, the existence of different crystal forms, their transformation temperatures, and the extension of solid-solution ranges with other metals are preliminary points in the definition of convenient heat treatments and of their effects. In the evaluation and planning of the treatments, due consideration must be given to the heating and/or cooling rate and to the diffusion processes (in pure metals and in alloys). 

For a number of applications, particularly those associated with conditions of continuous cooling or heating, equilibrium is clearly never approached and calculations must be modified to take kinetic factors into account. For example, solidification rarely occurs via equilibrium, amorphous phases are formed by a variety of non-equilibrium processing routes and in solid-state transformations in low-alloy steels much work is done to understand time-temperature-transformation diagrams which are non-equilibrium in nature. The next chapter shows how CALPHAD methods can be extended to such cases. 

Figure 3 shows an equilibrium phase diagram of Al-Cu system (6). This is the basis for the phase transformation. The skeletal fee Cu was finally formed from the AI2CU ( Q ) phase by leaching at a constant temperature. The process of the... 

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