Cu - Sn (Copper - Tin)

Hans Flandorfer, Siegfried Fuertauer, Dajian Li

Literature Data

Since the early assessments of experimental literature data by [1944Ray] only few changes have been made compared to the currently accepted phase diagram version, published e.g. in [Mas2]. To understand and critically discuss this version it is necessary to go back to the first comprehensive experimental works dedicated to Cu-Sn, started at the end of the 19th century. A first complete freezing point curve, as the liquidus was designated that time, was published by [1897Hey]. Some years later the same authors [1904Hey] published the first complete phase diagram based on cooling curves and metallographic studies, which were notably detailed and extended. Although the theoretical knowledge of phase relations in multicomponent systems was very scarce at that time, they could establish nearly all phase equilibria as they ...