Thermodynamics, Microstructures And Plasticity Book

	Foreword
	Introduction to modelling techniques in diffusive phase transformations	3
	Mean field theories and Ginzburg-Landau methods	27
	Mesoscale phase field modeling of engineering materials: microstructure and microelasticity	47
	Phase-field models of microstructural pattern formation	65
	The dynamics of interfaces in elastically stressed solids	91
	Cluster dynamics	107
	Sensitivity of texture development during grain growth to anisotropy of grain boundary properties	123
	Computer modelling of diffusion controlled transformations	135
	Solute drag: a review of the <> and <> approaches to the effect of solute on grain and interphase boundary motion	155
	On the jerky nature of martensitic transformation	167
	The development of ultra high strength materials by microstructural refinement	183
	Microstructural aspects of cyclic defomation and fatigue of metals	205
	High temperature plasticity of metallic materials	217
	Transformation-induced plasticity in steels	241
	Grain size effect of plasticity modelled by molecular dynamics	253
	Mixed Atomistic/continuum methods: static and dynamic quasicontinuum methods	265
	Boundary problems in DD simulations	275
	Discrete dislocation plasticity	285
	Surface instabilities and misfit dislocations in annealed heteroepitaxial films	301
	On the role of the strain-rate sensitivity in collective dislocation effects	313
	Statistical properties of dislocation ensembles	333
	Collective behavior of defect ensembles and some nonlinear aspects of failure	345
	Field theory of crystal defect structure	363
	Monte-Carlo methods	377
	Kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations in crystalline alloys: principles and selected applications	395
	Role of atomic-scale simulation in the modeling of solidification microstructure	411
	Applications of Monte-Carlo simulations to the kinetics of phase transformations	427
	Experimental investigations of microstructures	439
	Atomic scale tomography of microstructures and plastic properties	465
	Analysis of displacement and strain at the atomic level by high-resolution electron microscopy	485
	Dislocation organization under stress: TiAl	497
	List of Speakers	507
	Partners/Sponsors	511