John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000. - 280 pages
Preface
This volume is one of four now being published, each of which
consists of reprints of chapters from the1995 comprehensive
two-volume set Intermetallic Compounds: Principles and Practice. In
the present volumes selected sets of chapters are collected, each
set being on a single theme. In this format readers who are
interested in a particular aspect of intermetallic сompounds can
have a less weighty volume specific to their subject; a volume that
can be produced more economically than the full, original 1900-
page set; and that includes a modest updating of the subject
matter.
The subjects in most cases are taken from one or more chapter
groupings of the original Volume 1 or 2: Hence reprint volume 1,
Crystal Structures of Intermetallic Compounds, contains the ten
chapters from the original work under the heading Crystal
Structures; reprint volume 2, Basic Mechanical Properties and
Lattice Defects of Intermetallic Compounds, contains three from
Property Fundamentals, four chapters from Defect Structures, and
two from Kinetics and Phase Transformations; reprint volume 3,
Structural Applications of Intermetallic Compounds contains the
thirteen chapters that were under that same topic; and finally
reprint volume 4, Magnetic, Electrical, and Optical Properties and
Applications of Intermetallic Compounds, contains two chapters from
the section on Property Fundamentals, seven from Electromagnetic
Applications and one from Miscellaneous. Although each chapter is
reprinted nearly intact (only typographic and factual errors
corrected), the author or authors were given the option of adding a
brief addendum in order to add whatever new perspective has arisen
over the intervening few years. Some have chosen to do so; some
have not, either in the preferred case because they felt none was
needed or because the four-month window of opportunity they were
given to satisfy our and the publisher's desire for promptness did
not fit their work schedule. Corrections to the original chapters
that were so lengthy that they would upset the original pagination
are to be found in the addenda at the end of each relevant chapter.
Where an addendum is particularly relevant to a portion of the
original chapter being reproduced, a margin mark (*) alerts the
reader to refer to the added pages at the end of the chapter.
Cross-references to other chapters relate to the original 1995
two-volume work, the tables of contents of which appear at the end
of this volume.