01738pam a2200217 a 4500 20260103121745.0 960612s1996 si a b 001 0 eng 9789810223649 eng 530.414 TolR Tolédano, Pierre Reconstructive Phase Transitions : In Crystals and Quasicrystals / Pierre Toledano & Vladimir Dmitriev Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific; ©1996 xvii, 397p. This book deals with the phenomenological theory of first-order structural phase transitions, with a special emphasis on reconstructive transformations in which a group-subgroup relationship between the symmetries of the phases is absent. It starts with a unified presentation of the current approach to first-order phase transitions, using the more recent results of the Landau theory of phase transitions and of the theory of singularities. A general theory of reconstructive phase transitions is then formulated, in which the structures surrounding a transition are expressed in terms of density-waves, providing a natural definition of the transition order-parameters, and a description of the corresponding phase diagrams and relevant physical properties. The applicability of the theory is illustrated by a large number of concrete examples pertaining to the various classes of reconstructive transitions: allotropic transformations of the elements, displacive and order-disorder transformations in metals, alloys and related structures, crystal-quasicrystal transformations. Quasicrystals Crystals Phase transformations (Statistical physics) Dmitriev, Vladimir BK 3879 3879 0 0 0 0 ME IITTP IITTP GEN 2021-09-15 The Book Syndicate 6996.83 BS/41082 5 4 530.414 TOL/R 07761 2026-07-31 2025-08-05 00:00:00 2025-08-05 9584.70 2021-08-18 BK