Time–Temperature–Transformation Diagrams with More than One Nose

The structures of time–temperature–transformation diagrams of glasses which crystallize by combined homogeneous and heterogeneous crystallization mechanisms are examined. Considerations are given to the factors which might produce more than one extremum in such diagrams. Specific nucleation and growth models are used, and the influence of the parameters which appear in the nucleation and growth rate expressions upon the structure of the diagrams is evaluated.