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Coherent phase equilibria in systems possessing a consolute critical point

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

C. S. Chiang
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
William C. Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
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Abstract

The influence of coherency strains on phase equilibria in a two-phase microstructure is examined for a binary or pseudobinary alloy system possessing a consolute critical point (chemical miscibility gap). The qualitative features of phase equilibria, including the limits of metastability (chemical spinodal), are shown to depend critically on the mechanical loading conditions and the geometric arrangement of the phases in the microstructure. If the elastic state of a phase in a two-phase coherent system is independent of the presence of the other phase, then the equilibrium characteristics usually associated with fluid systems should be observed, even though the system is nonhydrostatically stressed. If the elastic state of a phase depends upon the presence of the other phase, then the equilibrium characteristics that have come to be associated with coherent systems should be observed; tie lines and field lines do not coincide, the common tangent construction is invalid, and Gibbs phase rule is not applicable.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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