Publisher's Synopsis
Mechanical alloying (MA) is a solid-state processing technique allowing production of macroscopically homogeneous materials starting from various powder mixtures. The process is generally carried out in a high-energy ball mill and involves repeated welding, fracturing and rewelding of powder particles. MA is now capable of producing several stable and metastable phases, including supersaturated solid solutions, metastable crystalline and quasicrystalline intermediate phases and metallic glasses. MA is now applied to all types of materials - metals, ceramics, and polymers, and is being actively pursued by industry, academia, and research laboratories all over the world. The technique is now called ""mechanical alloying"" if one starts from blended elemental powders or ""mechanical milling"" if a prealloyed powder is used as the starting material. The present bibliography covers information on mechanical alloying and milling of materials starting from 1970 (when it was recognized that MA has become a commercial/viable material processing technique instead of just a grinding method) to1995 All the available references are presented in a chronological fashion. Under each year, the entries will be mentioned in an alphabetical order according to the first-named author. Each reference provides the listing of all the authors (in the sequence they appear in the publication), full title of the publication, source (journal, book chapter, conference proceedings, patent, etc.), volume, year of publication, page numbers (starting and ending) and language of the document, if it is not in English. These items will be followed by letter symbols to indicate the topics and properties discussed in thatpublication. A comprehensive author index, subject index, and material index, will also be provided at the end of the bibliographic entries.
