CRC Press
356 pages
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
Introduction. Chemical Bonding and Phase Diagrams in Alloy Phase Stability. Early Theories of Alloy-Phase Stability. First-Principles Band Calculations Using the Muffin-Tin Potential. Hume-Rothery Electron Concentration Rule Concerning the a/�Phase Transformation in Cu-X (X = Zn, Ga, Ge, etc.) Alloy Systems.