SLIDE 4 Kasetsart University
Dr.Peerapong Triyacharoen Department of Materials Engineering
213211: Imperfection
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Example: Vacancy Conc.
Design a heat treatment that will provide 1000 times more vacancies in copper than are normally present at room temperature. About 20,000 cal/mol are required to produce a vacancy in copper.
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Cu 10 8.47 cm) 10 (3.6151 l 4atoms/cel × = × = N
Solution Cu: FCC, aCu = 0.36151 nm. At Troom; cm vacancies/
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10 815 . 1 298 987 . 1 000 , 20 exp ) 10 47 . 8 ( × = ⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜ ⎝ ⎛ × − × =
v
N Wish to produce cm vacancies/
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10 815 . 1 × =
v
N
⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜ ⎝ ⎛ × − × = × T 987 . 1 000 , 20 exp ) 10 47 . 8 ( 10 815 . 1
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T = 375 K = 102°C