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.
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.