Percolation and Low Density Materials: Theory and Applications

Abstract

In the past several years it has become increasingly clear that connectivity or percolation concepts play an important role in understanding the properties of these low-density materials. The full exploitation of this important link between material properties and connectivity has, until recently, been hampered by the scarcity of reliable methods to handle the complex connectivity problem and the lack of tractable models that retain the essential physics. Substantial progress has been made and with this progress the beginning of important applications of percolation to several materials problems such as elasticity, nucleation, spinodal decomposition and diffusion in disordered alloys. Keywords: Nucleation, Complex connectivity problem, Spinodal decomposition, Percolation concepts, Low-density materials, Material, Properties, Disordered alloys, Diffusion, Elasticity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA224237

Entities

People

  • William P Klein

Organizations

  • Boston University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemistry
  • Composite Materials
  • Computer Simulations
  • Crystal Structure
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Low Density
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Mechanics
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Phase Diagrams
  • Phase Transformations
  • Solid State Physics
  • Subatomic Particles
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

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  • Polymer Science and Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Thin Film Deposition Science.