EVALUATION OF MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESSES

The microstructure of amorphous materials obtained by first order phase transitions influences greatly their macroscopic properties. Particle size distributions can be now obtained for different growth mechanisms giving a deep understanding of these properties. In this paper we show that an adequate dimensionless formulation allows to obtain simple but accurate estimations of the most interesting average parameters of the grain size distribution, namely the average and maximum grain size and the grain density.