Okamoto, Desk Handbook: Phase Diagrams for Binary Alloys (2nd Ed.), ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 2010). Okamoto, Desk Handbook: Phase Diagrams for Binary Alloys, ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 2000 H. ASM International since 1992 has published two collections of binary phase diagrams (H. Cenzual, section editors, ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 2006).

A few others have been added, based on frequency of citation in the ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Database (P. Most of these systems have been retained in this new edition, with the exception of 30 systems based on Eu, Np, and Os, which have found little practical application. Kacprzak, ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 1990. The binary section of the 1992 edition of the ASM Handbook was constructed by its editors by selecting 1053 phase diagrams from 2159 phase diagrams collected in Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams, Second Edition by editors T.B. The more recent advent of phase diagram calculations based on first principles may turn out to be the next revolution in the field. The result has been numerous revisions of previously accepted phase diagrams, and predicted phase diagrams for newly assessed systems. These new calculation techniques can determine phase equilibria that could not be determined experimentally in a practical manner. “Optimizations” of binary, ternary, and higher-order systems are now commonplace, and the results are considered sufficiently trustworthy to compliment or even act as substitutes for experimentally determined data. An even more significant advance is the increased sophistication and reliability of computer modeling techniques for phase diagram calculations. During that time, improvements in experimental techniques and materials quality have increased the accuracy of experimental results, allowing better resolution of “fine details” and filling the remaining gaps of existing systems and resolution of phase fields for phases of marginal stability. More than two decades have passed since the previous edition of ASM Handbook, Volume 3, Alloy Phase Diagrams was published in 1992. Metallurgical & Materials Transactions E.Metallurgical & Materials Transactions B.Metallurgical & Materials Transactions A.Metallography, Microstructure & Analysis.

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