The design
of industrial processes requires reliable thermodynamic data. CALPHAD (Computer
Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry) aims to promote computational
thermodynamics through development of models to represent thermodynamic
properties for various phases which permit prediction of properties of
multicomponent systems from those of binary and ternary subsystems, critical
assessment of data and their incorporation into self-consistent databases,
development of software to optimize and derive thermodynamic parameters and the
development and use of databanks for calculations to improve understanding of
various industrial and technological processes. This work is disseminated
through the CALPHAD journal and its annual conference. Contributions of high
quality in these and related fields, especially the fields of first-principles
calculations, experimental measurements of thermochemical and phase equilibrium
data, phase transformations, and the process and materials designs that the
CALPHAD works are based on or used for, are welcome.