Professor Jhon W. Christian

• Book ID: 102622133
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1985
• Weight: 149 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0001-6160
• DOI: 10.1016/0001-6160(85)90037-9

✦ Synopsis

Dr Christian is recognized internationally as one of the leading authorities in the field of martensitic transformations of metals and alloys, and his book "The Theory of Phase Trasnformations in Metals and Afloys" is a classic, regarded as the authoritative and standard treatise in this central field in metallurgy. Through his own original work, including inter alia the theory and experimental studies of the transformations of cobalt and indium-thallium alloys, and through his writings, he has contributed greatly to our understanding of the complex field of Phase Transformations and Martensitic Transformations in particular.

In the field of Mechanical Properties, together with Basinski, he carried out pioneering experiments, which established the importance of the Peierls force in body centered cubic metals at low temperatures. Since then, he and his group have made many important contributions to our knowledge and understanding of the fundamental plastic properties of b.c.c. metals and alloys.