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Search Publications by: Ursula R. Kattner (Fed)

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2015 TMS William Hume-Rothery Award and Symposium

February 22, 2016
Author(s)
Ursula R. Kattner
The symposium was titled “Multicomponent Alloy Metallurgy: Bridge from Materials Science to Materials Engineering” with focus on the physical metallurgy of alloys with three or more components. The topics of interest for the symposium included

Strategy for extensible, evolving terminology for the Materials Genome Initiative efforts

July 1, 2015
Author(s)
Talapady N. Bhat, Ursula R. Kattner, Laura Bartolo, Carelyn E. Campbell, John T. Elliott
Intuitive, flexible, and evolving terminology plays a significant role in capitalizing on recommended knowledge representation models for material engineering applications. In this article we present a proposed rules-based approach with initial examples

Evolution of gamma/gamma-prime Microstructure in Ternary Co-Al-W Alloys

June 29, 2015
Author(s)
Eric Lass, Yaakov S. Idell, Carelyn E. Campbell, Ursula R. Kattner
The discovery of a two-phase γ (FCC)-γ' (L12) field in the ternary Co-Al-W phase diagram has sparked significant research interest into possible Co-based analogs to traditional Ni-based superalloys used in turbine engine applications. This work

Advances in the Development of OpenCalphad Software and Databases

June 28, 2015
Author(s)
Bo Sundman, Ursula R. Kattner, Mauro Palumbo, Suzana G. Fries
Thermodynamics is at the core of materials science. The Calphad method, a powerful tool for materials design and engineering applications, has been shown to be an excellent platform for linking experiments and theoretical, quantum mechanics based results

CALPHAD and the High Entropy Alloy

January 28, 2015
Author(s)
Fan Zhang, Ursula R. Kattner
The name of High Entropy Alloy (HEA) first appeared in the paper by Yeh et al. (Advanced Engineering Materials, 6(5) (2004) 299.) published in 2004. The name was given because the authors found that when five or more components with equal/near equal atomic

Open Calphad - a free thermodynamic software

January 17, 2015
Author(s)
Bo Sundman, Ursula R. Kattner, Mauro Palumbo, Suzana G. Fries
The use of thermodynamics in many applications in material science like simulation of phase trans- formation suffers from the lack of high quality open source software for calculations of multicomponent systems. The goal of the Open Calphad (OC) software

gamma-prime Phase Stability and Phase Equilibrium in Ternary Co-W-Al at 900 degC

October 15, 2014
Author(s)
Eric Lass, Maureen E. Williams, Carelyn E. Campbell, Kil-Won Moon, Ursula R. Kattner
Phase equilibria at 900 °C in the Co-rich Co-W-Al ternary system is investigated through isothermal annealing of six alloy compositions for times up to 8000 h. The volume fraction of the L12-gamma-prime phase co-existing with disordered FCC-gamma, B2 and

Structural Materials Data Demonstration Project: Resource for Thermal Process Modeling

July 1, 2014
Author(s)
Carelyn E. Campbell, Ursula R. Kattner, Alden A. Dima, Scott Henry, Larry A. Berardinis, Tom Searles, Laura M. Bartolo
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)requires the availability of supporting data for modeling across multiple length scales. It also requires robust data schema and input-output protocols. To address these needs, a team working under a

Materials Genome III: CALPHAD Data Repositories and Beyond

April 29, 2014
Author(s)
Carelyn E. Campbell, Ursula R. Kattner, Zi-Kui Liu
Initially, the CALPHAD method was established as a tool for treating thermodynamics and phase equilibria of multicomponent systems. Since then the method has been successfully applied to diffusion mobilities in multicomponent systems, creating the

Materials Genome III: Building CALPHAD File and Data Repositories

January 1, 2014
Author(s)
Carelyn E. Campbell, Ursula R. Kattner, Zi-Kui Liu
The future development of the CALPHAD method requires establishing file and data repositories and tools to automate the modeling process and to enable efficient implementation of new models and development of multicomponent descriptions. To advance these

Thermodynamic modelling of liquids: CALPHAD approaches and contributions from statistical physics

December 20, 2013
Author(s)
Chandler A. Becker, J Agren, Marcello Baricco, Qing Chen, Sergei A. Decterov, Ursula R. Kattner, John Perepezko, Gernot Pottlacher, Malin Selleby
Here we describe current approaches to modelling liquids in CALPHAD. available experimental methods and results, and considerations in the use of molecular simulation and first-principles methods in thermodynamic modelling of liquids. We examine the two

An Understanding of High Entropy Alloy from Phase Diagram Calculation

November 12, 2013
Author(s)
Fan Zhang, Chuan Zhang, Shuang-Lin Chen, J Zhu, Wei-Sheng Cao, Ursula R. Kattner
The concept of High Entropy Alloy (HEA) is understood from the point of view of phase diagram calculation. The role of entropy of mixing on the phase stability is discussed for both ideal and non-ideal solid solution phases. The relative stability of a

What's in a Name

November 4, 2013
Author(s)
Ursula R. Kattner
In the early days of alloy phase diagrams phases were named using Greek letters in unary systems, from lower temperatures to higher temperatures, and in binary systems from the left to the right hand side of the system. This convenient convention allows

Interfacial Reaction of Co-Fe Films with SiO_{2} Substrates

March 27, 2013
Author(s)
Leonid A. Bendersky, N. V. Kazantseva, Ursula R. Kattner, M K. Kang, Vladimir P. Oleshko, Dwight Hunter, Ichiro Takeuchi
The interdiffusion reaction between Co(1-x)Fex deposited films of various compositions (x = 0.27, 0.32 and 0.50) and an amorphous SiO2 substrate during annealing in vacuum at 800o C was identified by analytical transmission electron microscopy. The

Atom-Probe Tomographic Study of ?/?' Interfaces and Compositions in an Aged Co-Al-W Superalloy

December 12, 2012
Author(s)
Eric Lass, Kil-Won Moon, Maureen E. Williams, Carelyn E. Campbell, Ursula R. Kattner, David C. Dunand, Peter J. Bocchini, David N. Seidman
Atom-probe tomography (APT) is utilized to investigate, in a Co-9.7Al-10.8W at.% alloy aged at 900 °C for 1000 h, the phase composition and partitioning behavior of the two-phase ɣ(f.c.c.)/ɣ'(L12) microstructure. The APT composition of the ɣ-matrix (Co-8

Data in the 21st Century

August 2, 2012
Author(s)
Ursula R. Kattner
Data have always been important in the field of materials science and engineering. Important attributes and properties for such databases to fulfill data requirements of the 21st century are being evaluated.

Experimental and Thermodynamic Assessment of Phase Equilibria in the Co-Mo system

June 20, 2012
Author(s)
Katsunari Oikawa, Ursula R. Kattner, J. Sato, T. Omori, M. Jang, K. Anzai, Kiyohito Ishida
Phase equilibria of the solid phases in the Co-Mo system were investigated using two-phase alloys and the diffusion couple technique. In addition, systematic studies of phase transformations were conducted by differential scanning calorimetry, and

The Art of Data Evaluation

June 16, 2011
Author(s)
Ursula R. Kattner
The ability to critically screen the available data using the original publications is the foundation for a good evaluation. Examples for the analysis of data from different sources are given.

Integrated Computational Materials Engineering, CALPHAD and Hans Leo Lukas

October 16, 2010
Author(s)
Ursula R. Kattner, H. J. Seifert
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) has become one of the new hot topics in materials science and engineering in recent years, and worldwide numerous conferences and symposia have been dedicated to this topic. In the report of the

Solidification of a heterogeneous Multiphase Laves-based Hydrogen Storage Alloy

August 15, 2010
Author(s)
William J. Boettinger, Dale E. Newbury, Ke Wang, Leonid A. Bendersky, Chun Chiu, Ursula R. Kattner, K. Young, B. Chao
The solidification microstructure of a nine-element Zr-Ni based AB(sub 2) type C14/C15 Laves hydrogen storage alloy is determined. The selected composition represents a class of alloys being examined for usage as a metal hydride electrode in nickel metal

Enhanced Mass Transport in Ultra-Rapidly-Heated Ni/Si Thin-Film Multilayers

November 15, 2009
Author(s)
Lawrence P. Cook, Richard E. Cavicchi, Nabil Bassim, Susie Eustis, Winnie Wong-Ng, Igor Levin, Ursula R. Kattner, Carelyn E. Campbell, Christopher B. Montgomery, William F. Egelhoff Jr., Mark D. Vaudin
We have investigated multilayer and bilayer Ni/Si thin films by nano-differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at ultra rapid scan rates, in a temperature-time regime not accessible with conventional apparatus. DSC experiments were completed at slower scan

Calculation of Relative Thermal Elongation of Structural Steels

May 2, 2009
Author(s)
Dilip K. Banerjee, Ursula R. Kattner
In the recent past, there has been a number of studies toward predicting the thermal and structural behavior of components subjected to elevated temperature due to an exposure to fire. Numerical modeling has been applied quite extensively toward this end

A reassessment of the Al-Fe system using a four sublattice model for the DO 3 ordering

April 9, 2009
Author(s)
Ursula R. Kattner, Bo Sundman, Ikuo Ohnuma, Nathalie Dupin, S Fries
The Al-Fe system is important in many alloys and the new interest in iron aluminides makes it necessary to improve the modelling of the different ordered forms of the A2 lattice in this system. This has now been done using a 4 sublattice model based o the

Modelling of Thermodynamics and Diffusion in Multicomponent Systems

April 1, 2009
Author(s)
Ursula R. Kattner, Carelyn E. Campbell
The availability of reliable materials data is key to the successful design of materials and manufacturing processes. Commercial alloys rarely consist of only two or three elements, but rather may contain a large number of elements for which the needed