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A consistent description of the kinetics of the cellular decomposition of supersaturated solid solutions with the development of a spatially periodic structure of lamellar (platelike) type, which consists of alternating phases of precipitates on the basis of the impurity component and depleted initial solid solution, is given. One of the equations, which determines the relationship between the parameters that describe the process of decomposition, has been obtained from a comparison of two approaches in order to determine the rate of change in the free energy of the system. The other kinetic parameters can be described with the use of a variational method, namely, by the maximum velocity of motion of the decomposition boundary at a given temperature. It is shown that the mutual directions of growth of the lamellae of different phases are determined by the minimum value of the interphase surface energy. To determine the parameters of the decomposition, a simple thermodynamic model of states with a parabolic dependence of the free energy on the concentrations has been used. As a result, expressions that describe the decomposition rate, interlamellar distance, and the concentration of impurities in the phase that remain after the decomposition have been derived. This concentration proves to be equal to the half-sum of the initial concentration and the equilibrium concentration corresponding to the decomposition temperature.
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Original Russian Text © M.A. Ivanov, A.Yu. Naumuk, 2014, published in Fizika Metallov i Metallovedenie, 2014, Vol. 115, No. 9, pp. 941–950.
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Ivanov, M.A., Naumuk, A.Y. Kinetics of the cellular decomposition of supersaturated solid solutions. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 115, 884–893 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X14090075
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