How to use phase diagrams and the lever rule to understand metal alloys

Metal alloys are used in many everyday applications ranging from cars to coins. By alloying a metal with another element we can control it's properties and microstructure. This video covers the basic concepts in metal alloys, phase diagrams and the lever rule, to help us understand how a materials properties are changed with varying compositions.
00:00 Introduction
00:12 Why is this important?
02:00 The basic building blocks - The periodic table
03:05 Basic concepts
04:12 What is a phase?
05:23 Complete solid solubility
06:42 Equilibrium phase diagrams for complete solid solubility
08:59 Limited solid solubility
10:01 Limited solid solubility example
10:56 Equilibrium phase diagram for limited solid solubility
12:46 Equilibrium microstructures
13:49 The lever rule
16:32 Lever rule derivation
18:08 Phase diagram example
22:07 Summary
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Sir,may i know how to calculate lever rule if the mass of unknown liquids are given without molar mass for temperature-composition phase diagram?

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one reason I heard nordic gold was used for coins is because it is a hellish material to diy, it has an insane oxidazation and slag build up which makes cleanly casting it a very fickle and near impossible task, without some proper machinery and setups. so think of it like this: "if you make a perfect 50cent coin mold, it would take you atleast 5 50cent coins to have 1 successful 50cent coin. because most of the alloy would turn into slag/crud/oxidated-sponge-mass"

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Hello, Thank you so much for this video!!! It helped clarify so much that I missed in lectures. Could you clarify or provide a source that explains why we can use the lever rule to help us find out the wt% compositions of each phase? 19:08

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Thanks. I have a separate video where I go though the full derivation for the lever rule which can be found here (kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4jWZ4asabhqr7csi=8BixPQrt0foTLhkp). In terms of good source, I recommend Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction by Callister

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Thankyou so much for explaining it. May I ask what if we have 3 different metals. How is the graph gonna be?

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Thanks. Glad to hear you found it useful. As you go to more elements the graph does become a bit more messy. If you search for ternary phase diagrams you can see some examples of the presentation of 3 element systems.

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Hello sir, at 17:29 when Mn/M = X/100, why did you divide by 100? thank you

[@BillyWu]

Good question. M_N is the mass of nickel and M is the total mass of the alloy. M_N/M is therefore the mass fraction of nickel in the alloy expressed as a fraction. X we define as the percentage composition of nickel in the alloy and thus the division by 100 is to convert the percentage amount to a fractional amount.

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Hi professor I have a question here about driving force. Why does driving force increases as temperature differrence is increasing ? If we have large supercooling , for example, we have _many nucleis, small crystals ,rapid nucleation rate_ .But for small supercooling we have opposites. I wonder why it is like that?

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Temperature is a key parameter in controlling metal properties. Under slow cooling rates, atoms have sufficient time to move to where they thermodynamically want to be, allowing for the formation of larger crystals and more ductile metals. For faster cooling you get many nucleation sites resulting in smaller crystals. The finer grains tend to increase strength but reduce ductility

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