Hume-Rothery Rules for Structurally Complex Alloy Phases av Uichiro Mizutani

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<P>With a history that reaches back some 90 years, the Hume-Rothery rules were developed to provide guiding principles in the search for new alloys. Ultimately, the rules bridged metallurgy, crystallography, and physics in a way that led to the emergence of a physics of the solid state in 1930s, although the physical implications of the rules were never fully resolved. Even today, despite a revived interest brought about by the 1984 discovery of quasicrystals, much about the rules remains an enigma.</P><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P>Now almost a century after the rules were put forward, <STRONG>Hume-Rothery Rules for Structurally Complex Alloy Phases</STRONG> provides researchers with an insightful and applicable interpretation of the Hume-Rothery electron concentration rule. Invoking first-principle band calculations, the book emphasizes the stability of structurally complex metallic alloys (CMAs).Written by Uichiro Mizutani, long considered the most knowledgeable expert on both the hi