Application of Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Materials Engineering

During the last 30 years, there was a surge for coupling thermodynamics and phase diagrams in the field of material science. Many large programmers as well as the exploring of versatile solution models, the description of the magnetism energy of elements and solutions, etc. were developed. Thermo-Calc, as one of the most successful commercial software package for calculation of phase equilibrium from a broad database, offered appropriate guidance for the materials study and reduced the amount of experiments. For example, the slag database in this commercial software package could be used for predicting the composition of oxide and sulphide inclusion formed during the deoxidation and solidification process with a specific multiphase equilibrium calculation.