Frontiers in the Design of Materials

Frontiers in the Design of Materials offers a unique collection of advanced topics in alloy design and materials development. Authored by those working at the cutting-edge of next generation materials for strategic and engineering applications, the text covers multi-scale modeling for alloy design and structural materials, nanomaterials, quasicrystals, amorphous metallic glasses, coating design, carbon based materials, and metal foams, as well as component/structure integrity. The book provides a blend of subjects of interest to physicists, materials scientists, and engineers, and includes novel directions for future development, as well as reference material for researchers and students.

The demands on materials to perform under complex service conditions has necessitated rapid advances in the design and development of materials and associated technologies. Development of new concepts starting at the electronic structure of materials and their modeling require application of advanced computer tools and software. There has been significant progress, not only in the development of advanced materials, but also in understanding their constitution and behavior with the help of modeling. This book presents a comprehensive view of the latest developments and experimental work on both these fronts and attempts to give direction to future work. The information contained in this book deals with topics such as materials challenges in the nuclear power sector, materials science approaches in biology and medicine, Fe-and Co-based bulky glass alloys for magnetic applications, smart composites, multilayer semiconductor devices, atomic structure and interfaces, design of light alloys, superalloys, novel materials with optimized design at atomic scale, design tools for nano-and micro scale metallic materials,  component design and industrial ecology, microstructural development of advanced ferritic steels, diamond/carbide nanocomposite gradient films, magnetic nanofluids, stability issues in nanostructured materials, the design of materials for enhanced tribological performance, solid oxide fuel cells, metal foams and high performance steels through nano-structures.

Materials Design and Technology Foresight; R Chidambaram                                                                Atomic Size Factor Criterion in Designing Bulk Metallic Glasses; D B Miracle, E A Lord and S Ranganathan         Ab Initio Design of Novel Materials with Optimized Properties at the Atomic Scale; Vijay Kumar   Design Tools for Structural Metallic Materials; P C Collins, S Kar, T Searles, S Koduri, G B Viswanathan, J Tiley, R Banerjee and H L Fraser                Novel Alloy Concept, Challenges and Opportunities of High-entropy Alloys; Jien-Wei Yeh, Swe-Kai Chen and Yu-Liang Chen               A Design-directed Approach to Research Prioritization in the Light Alloys; B C Muddle and C R Hutchinson           Component Design and Industrial Ecology: A Framework for Design of Materials; Sigurd Stören and Frank Melum                Order at Solid–Liquid Interfaces; Wayne D Kaplan and Yaron Kauffmann           Solidification of Deeply Undercooled Alloy Melts; Krishanu Biswas and Kamanio Chattopadhyay Application of Intergranular Crack Percolation to a 3D Poisson– Voronoi Polyhedral Grain Structure; T Karthikeyan, S Saroja, M Vijayalakshmi and K P N Murthy       High Performance Steels through Nanostructures; N V Bangaru and J Y Koo                                    Microstructural Investigations and Characterization of 9%–12% Steels; Karl Maile and Ebehard Roos   Requirements for Reliable and Safe Operation of Power Plant Components— based on Computation and Material Behavior; Ebehard Roos        Development of New Ferritic Steels for Application as Interconnector Material in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; L Singheiser, J Pir´on-Abell´an, P Huczkowski, S Ertl, V Shemet and W J Quadakkers                                                                                                                                          Development of Aerospace Aluminum Alloys and Processes by Design: Potential and Challenges; Krishnan K Sankaran and Krishna Rajan    Nickel-base Superalloys— an Engineering and Scientific Challenge; Jean-Loup Strudel The Role of Boron in the Design of Superalloys; Mahesh C Chaturvedi                Characterization of GaAs-based Multilayer Semiconductor Device Structures; D V Sridhara Rao, K Muraleedharan, S Bysakh, R Balamuralikrishnan, T K Nandy, R Muralidharan, T Srinivasan, P Mishra, P Sen, V D Vankar and D Banerjee                                                                      Elastic Constants of Al–Sc Intermetallic Compounds by First-principle Calculations; C Ravi , C Valsakumar, S Mathi Jaya and R Asokamani Toughness and Crack Sensing of MgO-based Smart Composites with Piezoelectric Phase; Yoshiharu Mutoh, Sirirat Rattanachan and Yukio Miyashita              Microstructural Design for Superplasticity in Ceramics; Santonu Ghosh and Atul H Chokshi       Metal Foams—from Fundamental Research to Applications; John Banhart                                          Carbon-based Nanomaterials—Controllable Growth and Characterization; X Jiang, Y Qin and G Y Zhang   Nanocrystalline materials by Mechanical Alloying and Rapid Solidification Processing; B S Murty   An Overview of Recent Research on Magnetic Nanofluids; John Philip and Baldev Raj Enhancement of Plasticity in Bulk Metallic Glasses; E S Park and D H Kim           The Design of Materials and Coatings for Enhanced Tribological Performance; G Sundaraarjan   Analysis and Evaluation of Interface Strength in Coating Materials; Jin-Quan Xu, Qin Yu and Yoshiharu Mutoh       Author Index                                                                                                                                                        Subject Index