Rapidly Solidified Alloys Processes-Structures-Properties-Applications

Furnishing more than 2300 literature citations for further study of specific subjects, "Rapidly Solidified Alloys" is intended for materials, mechanical, product, and civil engineers; metallurgists; magneticians; physicists; physical chemists; and graduate students in these disciplines.

This volume details the principles underlying rapid solidification processing, material structure and properties, and their applications. This practical resource presents a manifold approach to both amorphous and crystalline rapidly solidified metallic alloys.;Written by over 30 internationally acclaimed specialists in their respective fields, Rapidly Solidified Alloys: surveys nucleation and growth studies in undercooled melts; examines various processes for the production of rapidly solidified alloys; discusses the compaction of amorphous alloys; describes surface remelting treatments for the rapid solidification of surface layers and the resultant improved workpiece properties; covers the closely related topics of structural relaxation, atomic transport and other thermally induced processes; demonstrates microstructure-property relationships in rapidly quenched crystalline alloy systems and their beneficial effects in applications; and elucidates the basic, engineeering, and applications-oriented magnetic properties of amorphous alloys.;Furnishing more than 2300 literature citations for further study of specific subjects, Rapidly Solidified Alloys is intended for materials, mechanical, product, and civil engineers; metallurgists; magneticians; physicists; physical chemists; and graduate students in these disciplines.

Part 1 Processes: background to rapid solidification processing, R.W. Cahn; fundamentals of solidification at high rates, W.J. Boettinger and J.H. Perepezko; undercooling and solidification, D.M. Herlach and R. Wilnecker; processing principles in rapid solidification, Paul Hideo Shingu and Keiichi N. Ishihara; rapid solidification processing of composites, E.R. Murray and D.G. Ast; production techniques of alloy wires by rapid solidification, M. Hagiwara and A. Inoue; synthesis and consolidation of amorphous metallic powders, R.N. Schwarz; rapidly solidified surface layers by laser melting, E. Schubert and H.W. Bergmann. Part 2 Structures and properties: atomic structure of rapidly solidified alloys, T. Egami; structural relaxation and atomic transport in amorphous alloys, A.L. Greer; phase transformations in rapidly solidified alloys, Uwe Koster and Uwe Schunemann; microstructure-property relations in rapidly solidified crystalline alloys, S.K. Das and F.H. Froes; recent studies of the mechanical properties of amorphous alloys, J.C.M. Li; electronic transport properties, T. Richmond and H.J. Guntherodt; low-temperature properties of rapidly solidified alloys, H.V. Lohneysen; intrinsic magnetic properties of amorphous alloys, T. Mizoguchi; engineering magnetic properties, A. Hernando and M. Vazquez; chemical properties of rapidly solidified alloys, K. Hashimoto. Part 3 Applications: applications of rapidly solidified soft magnetic alloys, Carl H. Smith; rapidly solidified Nd-Fe-B alloy for permanent magnet applications, M.S. Guthrie; brazing and soldering with rapidly solidified alloys, A. Rabinkin and Howard H. Liebermann; mechanical performance applications of rapidly solidified alloys, C. Suryanarayana and F.H. Froes; rapid solidification - origins, present and future, H. Jones.