Thermodynamics of Mechanical Alloying
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Date: 24/04/2011

Mechanical alloying is a process in which a metallic solid solution can be produced without melting the constituents. The process begins with large lumps which are attrited into ever smaller particles until there is mixing on an atomic scale. In this lecture we explore how elementary thermodynamic models of solutions can be used to describe mechanical alloying and to discover phenomena which have not previously been noticed.

The content should be generally useful to scientists. This is the fourth of seven lectures on the thermodynamics of phase transformations.

Lecture given at Cambridge University, by Professor H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia as an introduction to thermodynamics.

http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/phase-trans/teaching.html