Publisher's Synopsis
Focusing on the physico-chemical fundamentals of advanced material processing, this book addresses: composites interface stability, modelling of interfacial reactions, defects in intermetallic compounds, thermodynamics and kinetics of interfacial reactions, solidification and phase equilibria, fundamentals of high-temperature materials joining, and the relationship between chemical and mechanical stabilities.;Thermodynamic and kinetic issues are addressed collectively for metal and ceramic composites, as well as intermetallics. The 32 papers are from the 1996 TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Anaheim, California, USA, February 4-8, 1996.
