Alloy Phase Stability

Alloy Phase Stability: Opening Remarks.- Section 1. Alloy Design.- Phase Stability and Alloy Design of Ordered Intermetallics.- Mechanical Properties and Phase Stability of Ll2Ni3A1 Ternary Compounds.- Ordered B2 Aluminides.- Section 2. Experimental Probes of Atomic and Electronic Structure.- Photoemission and the Study of Order-Disorder Transformations.- Electron Microscopy of Ordering in Alloys.- Quantitative Statistical Description of the Long Period Antiphase Boundary Structures from Their High Resolution Image.- Long-Range Order and Short-Range Order in Pd3V: Breakdown of the Mean Field Theory.- Long Period Superstructures in Cu3+xPd.- Long Period Superlattice Phases in Cu-Al-Zn Alloys.- New Antiphase Superstructures in Nb-Ga Binary System.- Order-Disorder Transition in CuPt-Alloys, Investigated by Resistivity Measurement.- Effective Pair-Interactions in Binary Alloys.- Section 3. Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.- Computer Based Thermochemical Modeling of Multicomponent Phase Diagrams.- The Cluster Variation Method and the Calculation of Alloy Phase Diagrams.- Long Period Structures in Alloys-Statistical Mechanics of the ANNNI Model and Related Concepts.- Mechanisms for the Decay of Unstable and Metastable Phases: Spinodal Decomposition, Nucleation and Late-Stage Coarsening.- Monte Carlo Calculations of Phase Diagrams of Magnetic Alloys on the Body-Centered Cubic Lattice.- Hierarchy of Cluster Variational Methods on 3-Dimensional Lattices and Application to the Study of FCC Phase Diagrams.- A Criterion for Determining the Tricritical Point.- The Coordination Cluster Theory for Metallic Solutions.- Section 4. Electronic Theories of Phase Stability, Semi-Phenomenological and Model Hamiltonians.- Electronic Structure, Effective Pair Interactions and Order in Alloys.- Quantum Mechanics in Alloy Design.- Tight-Binding Hamiltonians.- Cluster Bethe Lattice Approach to Chemically Disordered Alloys with Short Range Order.- Section 5. Electronic Theories of Phase Stability: First Principles Theory.- Structural Stability of Intermetallic Compounds: A Computational Metallurgical Approach.- Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties of Impurities in Metals.- The Electronic Structure and the State of Compositional Order in Metallic Alloys.- Local Density Theory of Magnetism and Its Interrelation with Compositional Order in Alloys.- Configurational Energies in Terms of Effective Cluster Interactions in Binary Substitutional Alloys: Connection Between the Embedded Cluster Method and the Generalized Perturbation Method.- Cluster Interactions and Thermodynamic Properties of Al-Transition Metal Alloys.- Electronic Theory of Phase Stability in Substitutional Alloys: A Comparison on Between the Connolly-Williams Scheme and the Generalized Perturbation Method.- Section 6. The Effects of Strain and Macroscopic Defects on Phase Stability.- Strain Controlled Morphologies in the Two-Phase State.- The Influence of Lattice Defects on Alloy Phase Diagrams.- Phase Stability by the Artificial Concentration Wave Method.- Growth Modes and Metastability in Cu-Ni and Pd-Ni Compositionally Modulated Thin Films.- Premartensitic Microstructures as Seen in the High Resolution Electron Microscope: A Study on a Ni-Al Alloy.- Section 7. General Topics.- Annihilation Momentum Density of Positrons Trapped at Vacancy-Type Defects in Metals and Alloys.- Electronic Structure, Charge Transfer Excitations and High Tc Superconductivity in Transition Metal Oxides.- Electronic and Structural Properties of Ordered III-V Alloys.- Liquid Alloys - New Perspectives and Challenges.- Excitation Spectra of Optically Excited Rare-Gas Atoms Physisorbed on Metal Surfaces.- Dynamics of Spinodal Decomposition in Polymer Gels.- Closing Address.- List of Lecturers.- List of Participants.- Author Index.