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Volume 1: Polymer Mechanochemistry - by Cleopatra Vasiliu OPREA & Florin DAN

Department of Macromolecules, Gh. Asachi, Technical University, 6600 Iasi, Romania

Macromolecular Mechanochemistry presents from theoretical and experimental point of view the main problems of this field, including the results obtained in more than a century of research. It is organised in two volumes: Polymer Mechanochemistry and Polymers with Chemomechanical Functions, respectively. The present volume deals with: Chained Polystage Character of Mechanochemical Process (1), Mechanochemistry of Polymers Deformation (2); Mechanochemistry of Polymer Fracture (including also the Fracture of Composite Materials) (3), and Mechanochemical Processes for Energy Conversion (4). In this frame, the theoretical and experimental material is organised in correlation to the reaction mechanism, the type of mechanical solicitation, and the nature of environmental medium. This book is addressed to professors, students, and researchers involved in the field of polymer science, to engineers from the industry of synthesis and processing of plastic materials, elastomers and fibres, as well as to specialists from all technical domains that exploit polymer-based materials. They will find in the book examination of the theoretical, experimental and applied problems and wide access to the basic literature in this field. Contents

1. Chained polystage mechanism of mechanochemical processes

2. Mechanochemistry of polymers deformation

3. Mechanochemistry of Polymer Fracture

4. Mechanochemical Processes for Energy Conversion

Volume 1 (ISBN 189832672X) will be published in September 2000, approx. 500 pages, cased,

approximate price £80.00; (volume 2 will be published at the end of - 2000)

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"Mechanical Alloying : FABRICATION OF ADVANCED MATERIALS AT ROOM TEMPERATURE" by M. Sherif El-Eskandarany

(ISBN: 977-299-089-7) Published by DAR AL-FIKR AL-ARABI, Cairo-Egypt.

The price of the book is $50, and a special discount (20%) is offered to all the RFM member.

Mechanical alloying (MA) process using ball-milling and/or rod-milling techniques, has received much attention as a powerful tool for fabrication of several advanced materials, including equilibrium, nonequilibrium (e.g., amorphous, quasicrystals, nanocrystalline, etc.), and composite materials. In addition, it has been employed for reducing some metallic oxides by milling the oxide powders with metallic reducing agents at room temperature. The MA is unique process in that a solid state reaction takes place between the fresh powder surfaces of the reactant materials at room temperature. Consequently, it can be used to produce alloys and compounds that are difficult or impossible to be obtained by the conventional melting and casting techniques.

This book intended primarily to serve as an introduction to the MA process, including general description of the process, starting material requirements, the equipment, characterizations of the milled powders, and consolidation techniques, which used to compact the powder into fully-dense bulk materials.

The book contains several typical examples of selected advanced materials that have been fabricated by MA. This book is aimed at either senior undergraduate/post graduate students or materials scientists/metallurgists. - M. Sherif El-Eskandarany - April 2000 - Cairo - EgyptContents -

Introduction - Background - History of Mechanical Alloying - Milling - Factors Affecting the Mechanical Alloying 8 - Types of Mills 8 - High Energy Ball mill 9 - Attritor Ball Mill 9 - Planetary Ball Mill 11 - Vibratory Ball Mill 12 - Low Energy Ball Mill 15 - Tumbler Ball Mill 15 - Tumbler Rod Mill 16 - Effect of Ball-to-Powder Weight Ratio 19 - Effect of Milling Atmosphere 22 - Mechanism of Mechanical Alloying 23 - Ball-Powder-Ball Collision 24 - Necessity of Mechanical Alloying 25 - References 27

Fabrication of ODS Alloys - Introduction and Background - Applications and Examples - ODS Ni-Base Superalloys and Fe-Base High Temperature Alloys 34 - INCONEL MA 754 35 - INCONEL MA 6000 37 - INCOLOY MA 956 38 - ODS Al Base Alloys 38 - References 45 - Fabrication of Nanophase Materials - Introduction - Influence of Nanocrystalline on the Mechanical Properties: Strengthening by the Grain size Reduction - Formation of Nanocrystalline Materials by Ball Milling Technique - Mechanism(s) 52 - Selected Examples 53 - Formation of Nanocrystalline NixMo100-x 53 - Formation of Nanocrystalline FCC Metals 54 - Consolidation of the Nanocrystalline Milled Powders - References 59 - Fabrication of Nanocomposite Materials - Introduction and Background - Fabrication of SiCp/Al Composites by Mechanical Alloying - Properties of Mechanically Solid State Fabricated SiCp/Al Composites - Mechanism of Fabrication - References 82

Mechanically Induced Solid-State Cabonization - Introduction - Difficulties of Preparations - Fabrication of Nanocrystalline TiC by Mechanical Alloying Method - Properties of Mechanically Solid State Reacted TiC Powders - Other Carbides Produced by Mechanical Alloying - References 124 - Mechanically Induced Solid-Gas Reaction - Introduction - Fabrication of Nanocrystalline TiN by Reactive Ball milling - Properties of Reacted Ball Milled TiN Powders - Mechanism of Fabrication - Other Nitrides Produced by RBM - Fabrication of Nanocrystalline Solid Solution NiTiH by Reactive Ball Milling - References 157 - Mechanically Induced Solid-State Reduction - Introduction - Reduction of Cu2O with Ti by Room Temperature Rod Milling - Properties of Rod-Milled Powders - Mechanism of MSSR - Fabrication of Nanocrystalline WC and Nanocomposite WC-MgO Refractory Materials by MSSR and Methods - References 189 - Mechanically Induced Solid-State Amorphi z a t i o n - Mechanical Solid State Amorphization of Fe50W50 Binary System - Special Systems and Applications - Amorphous Austenitic Stainless Steel 254 - Fabrication of amorphous Fe52Nb48 Special Steel 257 - Fe-Zr-B 259 - Difference between Mechanical Alloying and Mechanical Disordering in the Amorphization Reaction of Al 50Ta50 in a Rod Mill - Mechanically Induced Cyclic Crystalline-Amorphous Transformations During Mechanical Alloying - References 295 -

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included in series Process Metallurgy, 10
by P. Balaz - Institute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
ISBN : 0 - 444 - 50206 - 8 / Price USD 144, Euro 124.79)
http : // www.elsevier.nl/inca/publication

Description

Mechanical activation of solids is a part mechanochemistry, the science with a sound theoritical foundation exhibiting a wide range of potential application. Mechanical activation istself is an Innovative procedure where an improvement in technological processes can be attained via a combination of new surface area and defects formation in minerals.

Mechanical activation is o exceptional importance in extractive metallurgy and mineral processing and this area forms the topic of this book and is a result of more than twenty years of research and graduate teaching in the field.

In pyrometallurgy, the mechanical activation of minerals makes it possible to reduce their decomposition temperatures or causes such a degree of disordering that the thermal activation may be omitted entirely. The potential mitigation of environmental pollutants is becoming increasingly important in this context.

The lowering of reaction temperatures, the increase of the rate and amount of solubility, preparation of water soluble compounds, the necessity for simpler and less expensive reactors and shorter reaction times are some of the advantages of mechanical activation in hydrometallurgy. The environmental aspects of these processes are particularly attractive.

Several industrial processes are examined and the flowsheets are presented as successfull of activation. In these processes, the introduction of a mechanical activation step into the technological cycle significantly modifies the subsequent steps.

The book is designed for researchers, teachers, operators and students in the areas of extractive metallurgy, mineral processing, mineralogy, solid state chemistry and materials science. It will encourage newcomers to the mechanochemistry to do useful research and discover novel applications in this field.

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Two new books on mechanical alloying are now available from Cambridge International Science Publishing (infos fournies par Anne Porter - Publishing Manager - Cambridge International Science Publishing http://www.demon.co.uk/cambsci/homepage.htm)

1. MECHANICAL ALLOYING - FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS http://www.demon.co.uk/cambsci/book52.htm Contents

Introduction (history, benefits of mechanical alloying); Mechanical alloying (alloying mills, mills in practice, improved mills, the process, parameters);

Variations of mechanical alloying (reaction milling, cryomilling, repeated rolling, double mechanical alloying, repeated forging); Process control agents in mechanical alloying; Mechanical alloying mechanisms (ductile-ductile system, ductile-brittle system, brittle-brittle system, metastable phase formation, amorphisation, nanocrystallization, extension of solid solubility, activation of solid state chemical interaction);

Energy transfer and energy maps;

Consolidation of mechanically alloyed powders (consolidation techniques, thermomechanical treatment); Mechanical properties of mechanically alloyed materials (tensile properties, fracture, creep, stress corrosion cracking susceptibility);

Modelling mechanical alloying (mechanistic models, deformation, coalescence and fragmentation, evolution of particle size, milling time, powder heating, powder cooling, atomistic model, thermodynamic and kinetic model) Joining of mechanically alloyed materials; Rapid solidification and mechanical alloying; Applications (nickel-based superalloys, Al-based materials, supersaturated solutions, magnetic materials, mechanically alloyed powders for spray coatings, superplasticity, tribological materials, composites, amorphous solids, nanocrystalline materials, solid-state chemical reactions, etc). ISBN 1898326568, 160 pages 234?156 mm, cased, £45.00, 1999

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DISPERSION STRENGTHENED ALUMINIUM PREPARED BY MECHANICAL ALLOYING, by M Besterci

http://www.demon.co.uk/cambsci/book51.htm 1. Characteristics of dispersion-strengthened systems 2. Mechanical alloying (kinetics and mechanism of preparation of the Al-C system by mechanical alloying; compaction of powders and heat treatment of compacts;

3. Microstructure and quantitative evaluation of parameters of dispersion-strengthened materials (definition and properties of interparticle distance; experimental possibilities of determination of structural objects; models of heterogeneous structures and their evaluation; simulation of model structures; analysis of the spatial distribution of particles in the Al-Al4C3 material)

4. Static and dynamic mechanical properties (mechanical properties at elevated temperatures; mechanical properties at 20 °C; effect of interface on the mechanical properties; superplastic properties of the system; thermal stability of the system; creep characteristics; creep-fatigue characteristics)

References - ISBN 189832655X, 90 pages, 234?156 mm, soft laminated cover, £25.00, 1999

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Prof. P.R. Soni (1999) - Cambridge International Science Publishing

web site : http://www.demon.co.uk/cambsi/book52.htm

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R.W. Cahn - Elsevier Science - Volume 2 in the Pergamon Materials Series

A large number of technical papers have been published in reviews, monographs and conference proceedings, but have almost always been devoted to a single processing technique. This book, however, covers all the non equlibrium processing methods and their effects in a single volume.

web site : www.elsevier.nl/locate/isbn/0080426972

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A. Inoue

Materials Science Foundation Vol. 4 - Trans Tech Publications : http ://www.ttp.net

Interest in bulk amorphous alloys has increased rapidly throughout the workd and these materials have now gained a position of great importance in basic science and engineering materials technology. Bulk amorphous alloys based upon the Zr - Al - Ni - Cu, Zr (Tin,Nb) - Al - Ni - Cu and Zr - Ti - Ni - Cu - Be systems have already achieved wide commercial success as components of various technical accessories ranging from sporting goods to optical instruments.

Here is a state of the art reviews on this new group of materials, covering all areas of interest, ranging from the synthesis of these special alloys and their fundamental properties, to their engineering characteristics and applications.

This work will therefore be of equal interest to those who wish to become fully acquainted with the subject, and to those who are already actively engaged in the field.

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Michal Besterci, Institute of Materials Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice

In the book, the author describes the theoretical and technological fundamentals of mechanical alloying the Al-C system. Special attention is given to material characteristics, the kinetics and mechanism of mechanical alloying, methods of mixture compaction and heat treatment of compacted parts. Models of dispersoid spatial arrangement, dispersoid evaluation and optimisation and experimental possibilities are discussed. The interpretation of the static and dynamic mechanical properties, especially strength and ductility properties at 20 °C, mechanical properties at elevated temperatures are discussed, with emphasis on the effect of interface, superplasticity, creep and creep-fatigue characteristics. Content

Introduction

1. Characteristics of dispersion-strengthened systems

2. Mechanical alloying (kinetics and mechanism of preparation of the Al-C system by mechanical alloying; compaction of powders and heat treatment of compacts;

3. Microstructure and quantitative evaluation of parameters of dispersion-strengthened materials (definition and properties of interparticle distance; experimental possibilities of determination of structural objects; models of heterogeneous structures and their evaluation; simulation of model structures; analysis of the spatial distribution of particles in the Al-Al4C3 material) 4. Static and dynamic mechanical properties (mechanical properties at elevated temperatures; mechanical properties at 20°C; effect of interface on the mechanical properties; superplastic

properties of the system; thermal stability of the system; creep characteristics; creep-fatigue characteristics)

Index : ISBN 189832655X, 80 pages, 234?156 mm, soft laminated cover, £22.00, January 1999

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Auteurs : Li Lü & Man On Lai(National University of Singapore)

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Contents : Preface - Introduction to Mechanical Alloying - Experimental Set - Up - The Mechanical Alloying Process - Formation of New Materials - Characterization of Powders - Densification - Mechanical Properties - Mechanisms of Mechanical Alloying - Modeling of Mechanical Alloying - Index

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Editors: Kenneth E. Gonsalves, Marie-Isabelle Baraton, Rajiv Singh, Heinrich Hofmann, Jerry X. Chen, and Joseph A. Akkara.

Materials Research Society, Symposium Proceedings Volume 501, 1998

MRS, Warrendale, Pennsylvania, USA (website: http://www.mrs.org/)

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Auteurs : E. Gaffet, S. Begin - Colin, O. Tillement

Editeur : Innovation 128 - 24 Rue du Quatre Septembre - 75002 Paris - France - Fax : 33 1 42 65 47 76

Les dernières années ont vu apparaître dans le monde des matériaux avancés le préfixe "nano" (nanostructuré, nanocristallins, nanophase ou nanométrique) ; les conférences et les forums sur Internet se multiplient où s'échangent des informations sur les avancées scientifiques et technologiques dans ce domaine des matériaux nanostructurés qui se distinguent des matériaux polycristallins conventionnels par la dimension des cristallites les composant ou par la dimension des hétérostructures présentes : ces dimensions sont de quelques dizaines d'angströms, voire de quelques nanométres. A ces dimensions, les propriétés des matériaux changent radicalement.

Au début des années 90, les japonais ont été les premiers a lancé d'ambitieux programmes de R & D puisque le MITI a consacré aux nanomatériaux près de 200 millions de dollars pour la période 1990 - 2000 et que la Science & Technology Foundation a investi presque la même somme pour co - financer des projets de laboratoires publics et privés. Les Etats Unis puis les pays européens ont investi plus tardivement mais déjà ont obtenu des résultats prometteurs (••••••) Certaines applications existent déjà au niveau international, quelque 400 sociétés se partagent aujourd'hui un marché voisin de 1 milliard de dollars mais qui devrait tripler, voire quintupler à l'horizon 2001.(••••••)

(•••) Pour aider les industriels concernés à imaginer les applications qu'ils pourraient s'approprier et identifier les acteurs internationaux, la présente étude dresse un état de l'art complet des nanomatériaux en décrivant leurs procédés d'élaboration actuels ou envisagés et en détaillant leurs différentes propriétés physico - chimiques et les géométries que l'on peut obtenir.

Enfin l'étude permet de cerner les applications actuelles et potentielles•••

Proceedings of 2d International Conference on Mechanochemistry

(INCOME-2), which was held in Novosibirsk in 1997.

Cambridge International Science Publishing
Emmanuel Gutman - Materials Eng. Dpt - Ben Gurion University - Beer Sheva - Israel

Considerable advances have been made in mechanochemistry in the last couple of decades. Training of experts in this fied with a background in materials science, chemical and mechanical engineering, etc. requires study of the fundamentals of mechanochemistry. There is a need for a textbook in the general and compressed form which would cover many aspects and would be used as a basis for understanding the fundamental principles to control mechanochemical phenomena. This textbook is based on lectures given by Prof. Gutman in a graduate course in the mechanochemistry of materials at the Ben - Gurion University of the Negev. The book contains examples of experimental results to illustrate the mechanochemical phenomena and technologies.

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) to 1996. All the available references will be presented in a chronological fashion. Under each year, (•••••)

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Proceeding du Congrès "Mechanically Alloyed, Metastable and Nancrystalline Materials"- Barcelone (1997)
Editor : M.D. Baro, S. Surinach - Materials Science Forum 269 - 272 (1998)