Lectures are given by teachers from the department of Materials Science and Engineering. Each lecture includes a homework assignment that must be solved by each student. The homework is reviewed immediately before the next lecture.
FMH3101 Phase Transformations 7.5 credits
About course offering
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Spring 2024 Start 16 Jan 2024 programme students
Target group
PhD students
Part of programme
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P3 (7.5 hp)Duration
Pace of study
50%
Form of study
Normal Daytime
Language of instruction
Swedish
Course location
KTH Campus
Number of places
Places are not limited
Planned modular schedule
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Spring 2024 Start 16 Jan 2024 programme students
Application code
60805
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Spring 2024 Start 16 Jan 2024 programme students
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Course disposition
Course contents
Overview of phase transformations in solid materials, transformations of different order, homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions, nucleation and growth, classification of transformations, activated processes, coherence at nucleation, facetted growth, effect of structure of interfaces, mathematical background of diffusion, exact and approximate solutions, effect of pressure, surface tension and stress and strain, morphological stability, spinodal decomposition, critical size, the theory of fluctuations, the theory of Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner, effect of stress and strain, inverse roughening, phase boundary motion, solute drag, solute trapping, transition to partitionless transformations, massive transformations, martensitic transformations, higher order phase transformations.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Explain the theories behind nucleation, growth and roughening.
- Explain the background of effect of surfaces on growth of a new phase.
- Explain the background of and theories of phase transformations that are controlled by the mobility of the interface.
- Explain the theories behind partitionless and diffusionless transformations.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Admitted to doctoral studies with knowledge in the thermodynamics and materials science.
Recommended prerequisites
Basic knowledge of thermodynamics and materials science.
Equipment
Literature
Lecture notes and distributed material.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- INL1 - Assignments, 7.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
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Supplementary information
The course FMH3101 replaces the course F4H5101 Phase Transformations I, from autumn 2020