Training 2008
This year's MatCalc course 'Thermodynamic and kinetic simulations with MatCalc' was held from Aug. 5-8 2008 at the Vienna University of Technology. A group of 21 people from Italy, Germany, Romania, Iran, Pakistan, India, Netherlands, Poland and Austria have been participating.
Time scedule of the this year's MatCalc training course:
Tuesday, Aug 5, 2008; 9:00 to 17:00
- Welcome, History, field of application …
- Introduction to MatCalc: GUI and first steps/calculations
- Theory: thermodynamic equilibrium, driving forces, databases, ...
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- Practical training: How to create a workspace, simple equilibrium calculations
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- Theory: thermodynamic equilibrium, driving forces, databases, ... (continued)
- Practical training: Stepped calculations, graphical representation of results, data export
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- Theory: thermodynamic equilibrium, driving forces, databases, ... (continued)
- Practical training: Calculation of Phase boundaries (‘How to find …’)
Wednesday, Aug 6, 2008; 9:00 to 17:00
- Scheil-Gulliver simulation, microsegregation and relevance for kinetic simulations.
- T0- temperature (theory and practice)
Break
- Theory: Ortho- and paraequilibrium
- Practical training: Calculation of Phase diagrams (Fe-C)
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- Theory: Phase transformation and precipitation in the MatCalc framework: SFFK model
- Theory: Introduction to the SFFK Model: evolution equations
- Performing a first precipitation simulation in the GUI
Thursday, Aug 7, 2008; 9:00 to 17:00
- Practice: How to set up precipitation kinetics simulations (precipitation of cementite in ferrite)
Break
- Practice: precipitation kinetics settings and precipitation domains
- Practice: Changing nucleation conditions: Ortho- / paraequilibrium nucleus composition, nucleation sites, etc.
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- Using scripts in MatCalc (precipitation of cementite in ferrite)
Friday, Aug 8, 2008; 9:00 to 15:00
- Theory: Nucleation theory and implementation into MatCalc
- Discussion of an example (scripts) to simulate a complex heat treatment using the MatCalc heat treatment features
Break
- Theory: treatment of interfacial energies
- Calculation of TTP-diagrams (theory and example)
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- Calculation of TTP-diagrams (theory and example)
- Discussion / analysis of practical examples of users
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| In the lecture room ... | ... working concentrated |
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| Ahmad, always smiling. | Bernd with a grin :-) |
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| Manuel, checking. | Sharoz, sceptic. |
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| Piotr assisting Farhan. | Ernst teaching ... |
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| ... and assisting Sabine. | Sometimes, others are assisting: Jakob and Cecilia. |
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| View of the teaching room. | Ernst in the MatCalc spot light. |
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| Evening project: discussing the days lectures :-) | in a traditional Viennese Restaurant. |
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| Its name is 'Golden Bell' (find it in the background) | Susanne and Mario. |
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| Ahmad and Farhan. | Still discussing and ... |
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| ... discussing ... |