The Thermo-Calc and DICTRA software/database/programming-interface packages, through many successful applications in the fields of Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics, have tremendously contributed to quantitative conceptual design and processing of various advanced materials. Materials scientists and engineers can efficiently apply such unique and comprehensive tools in calculating material properties, predicting material structures and simulating material processes, which are of wide-ranging industrial and academic importance.
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