Kinetics of Phase Transformations - NFPL055
Title: Kinetika fázových transformací
Guaranteed by: Department of Physics of Materials (32-KFM)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2020
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Miroslav Cieslar, CSc.
prof. RNDr. Vladimír Šíma, CSc.
Classification: Physics > Solid State Physics
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Annotation -
Last update: prof. RNDr. Vladimír Šíma, CSc. (11.05.2007)
Formal theory of kinetics of phase transformations. Kinetics of chemical reactions, recovery of point defects.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: prof. RNDr. Vladimír Šíma, CSc. (10.06.2019)

The condition for the completion of the course is passing an oral exam.
Literature - Czech
Last update: prof. RNDr. Vladimír Šíma, CSc. (18.02.2019)

1. B. Sprušil: Termodynamika pevných látek, skripta UK Praha 1982, II. vydání.

2. P. Haasen: Physical Metallurgy, Cambridge University Press 2nd Edition 1986.

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

4. D. A. Porter, K. E. Easterling: Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys, CRC Press, 2nd Edition 2001.

5. W. J. Moore: Fyzikální chemie, SNTL 1981.

6. H. Mehrer: Diffusion in Solids, Springer Series in Solid State Science 155, Springer 2007.
Teaching methods -
Last update: prof. RNDr. Vladimír Šíma, CSc. (10.06.2019)

lecture
Requirements to the exam -
Last update: prof. RNDr. Vladimír Šíma, CSc. (10.06.2019)

The exam is oral one, the extent of the required knowledge corresponds to the syllabus of the lecture in the extent presented at the lecture.
Syllabus -
Last update: prof. RNDr. Vladimír Šíma, CSc. (19.02.2019)

1. Kinetics of chemical reactions, equilibrium constant as a function of temperature and composition. 2. Reaction rate, kinetic equations of various orders, balanced, follow-up and side reactions. 3. Point defects. Atomic mechanisms of diffusion. "Up-hill" and "down-hill" diffusion. Diffusion in substitutional alloys. Darken's equations. 4. Solid-solid transformations in metals and alloys, their classification (civilian-diffusional, military-diffusionless). Theory of isothermal transformation kinetics, Avrami equation. Non-isothermal transformations. TTT diagrams, CCT diagrams. Solidification of pure metals and binary alloys.