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Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys, Third Edition (Revised Reprint)

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This is one of those rare gems of a text that delivers information almost every time you look at it. Strongly recommended for students of materials science or researchers who are working with mats. sci. or metallurgy. There are comprehensive sections on nucleation and diffusion, topics that are often mentioned but rarely explained to a sufficient degree. The section on thermodynamics provides enough relevant information to bring home the point that there is more to thermo than "a piston in a chamber with a permeable wall...(etc etc etc)" . It is a particularly useful reference for free energy considerations when examining phase transformations in solids, as the title plainly states!

This book should be handed off to students in materials science on principle (but only if they promise to read it).

To the curious minds of today and tomorrow:

The book by Easterling on Phase Transformations has been very well received throughout the world since its publication in the early 1990's (if memory serves me correctly).

The book is very accessible conceptually and mathematically as it is an elementary treatment. Yet, it is rigorously written and the important underlying principles are well discussed. I highly recommend it as an introductory textbook. Those interested in learning Phase Transformations may also consider Verhoeven and Reed & Hill --two classical texts on Physical Metallurgy. For more advanced treatments, take a look at the books by Christian, Wayman (Martensitic Transformation) and Khachaturyan (it's the bible of Structural Phase Transformations).

Cheers,

Dr. Entropy4life
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This book is the best for undegraduate or early graduate phase transformations courses.

Porter and Easterling start by covering the fundamentals: Basic thermodynamics, Diffusion and crystal interfaces. These three subjects give you the background to understand the rest of the book. They then cover solidificaiton reactions, diffusional solid/solid and diffusionless (martensitic) solid/solid reactions.

This book, clearly and concisely, conver all the high points of the subject of phase transformations, and lays the foundation for your sudy of the subjects based on PT's: casting, thermomechanical processing, etc.

If you are a material scientist, YOU MUST HAVE THIS BOOK.

This is an excellent college/graduate level textbook. It covers all aspects of phase transformations. The book treats phase transformations in its broadest sense, beginning with 250 pages of background physical metallurgy, covering: thermodynamics, phase diagrams, diffusion, crystal interfaces, and solidification. With this background, it then goes on to diffusional and diffusionless transformations. The book is thus more of a text on physical metallurgy, as opposed to being restricted to only transformations per, se. It is on the theoretical side, as opposed to a book that contains primarily data. This is an excellent book for upper level and graduate students of metallurgy and materials science, as well as physicists who need to know about solid-state transformations. It is a good book for practicing engineers who want a solid scientific background, but would not be a good choice if all they wanted were data. There is a more recent, third edition, of this book.

Book was in excellent condition, timely shipping. Couldn't ask for more. As for the book itself, I personally dislike it (dense, lack of examples, hard to comprehend)

The Porter & Easterling book is the best help to organize a course on Phase Transformations or Physical Metallurgy. The low cost allows students to buy it. Edited first in 1981, only minor corrections were introduced in the second edition, but the contents are still up to date.

An excellent introduction to the thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of phase transformations.

This book has done more to teach me about thermodynamics in solids (or at least the fundamentals thereof) then any of my other thermodynamics books.

This is a very comprehensive book on phase transformations from a materials scientist point of view. Without going deeply into the math of the theory of phase transitions, which is repulsively complex, the authors have taken a pragmatic approach using a simple, easy-to-understand and straight forward style. Not much pre-requisite knowledge is required for this book though some background in materials thermodynamics will definitely be helpful. A must for grad-students, professors and practitioners of materials science.

This a good book for students in material science. I think that should be reimpressed again.