Hume-Rothery Rules for Structurally Complex Alloy Phases

Download or read book Hume-Rothery Rules for Structurally Complex Alloy Phases written by Uichiro Mizutani and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 nev