Solid State Physics
Subtitle: Advances in Research and ApplicationsVolume 46
Contributors: Spaepen, Frans
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780080865232
Subjects: Solid state physics; Solid state physics -- Periodicals; Solid state physics -- Research
Description: This volume contains two articles on topics in materials science of great importance: the thermodynamics of stressed solids, a fundamental problem that goes back to Gibbs, and hydrogen in materials, an area that is both scientifically rich and of great current technological importance.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Solid State Physics; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. The Thermodynamics of Elastically Stressed Crystals; I. Introduction; II. Hydrostatically Stressed Crystals; III. Deformation and Stress; IV. Thermodynamics of a Single-Phase System; V. Capillary and Interfacial Properties; VI. Crystal-Fluid Equilibrium; VII. Two-Phase Crystalline Systems; VIII. Acknowledgements; IX. Appendix A: Surface Area Change Owing to Accretion; X. Appendix B: Continuity Condition at Two-Phase Crystalline Interface; title: XI. Appendix C: Continuity Condition at Crystal-Fluid InterfacesChapter 2. Solid Solutions of Hydrogen in Complex Materials; I. Introduction; II. Fundamental Properties of Hydrogen in Metals; III. Behavior of Hydrogen in Defective and Disordered Metals; IV. Interaction of Hydrogen with Defects; V. Hydrogen in Disordered and Amorphous Alloys; VI. Other Interstitials in Amorphous Materials; VII. Hydrogen in Systems with Reduced Dimensions; Author Index; Subject Index