Volume Diffusion-Controlled Growth Kinetics and Mechanisms in Binary Alloys

摘要

Growth kinetics and stability of simple precipitate morphologies which develop during solid-solid phase transformations in binary alloys will be briefly reviewed. Emphasis will be placed on our current understanding of the dependence of growth kinetics on the shape of precipitates and on the interfacial structure. As an example, we shall consider the lengthening kinetics of Widmanstatten precipitates and develop a stability criteria which determines the dimension of the advancing tip of these precipitates. These theoretical results will then be compared with the available experimental data in binary alloys. The importance of interface structure in determining growth kinetics will also be illustrated by considering the migration rate of partially coherent interphase boundaries with ledge structures. These results will then be synthesized to understand the development and stability of microstructures in binary alloys. (ERA citation 07:044162)