Magnesium alloys have received an increasing interest in the past 12 years for potential
applications in the automotive, aircraft, aerospace, and electronic industries. Many of these …

Icosahedral phase (I-phase) is a relatively excellent strengthening phase in Mg alloys.
Depending on their volume fraction, the yield strength of Mg–Zn–Y–Zr alloys can vary from …

The aim of this book is to acquaint the reader with what the authors regard as the most basic
characteristics of quasicrystals--structure, formation and stability, and properties--in …

Improvements in energy efficiency, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and 3R (reduce,
reuse and recycle) have been one of the central topics in recent years in environment and …

Since their discovery in 1984, several thousand papers have been published dealing with
various aspects of quasicrystals. Despite this flurry of activity, questions concerning the …

Additive manufacturing of aluminium alloys by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) has been
notionally restricted to a small number of alloy compositions to avoid hot cracking and …

Quasicrystals are considered as a new class of intermetallics with the long-range
quasiperiodic ordering, and have attracted research interest over the last 3 decades due to …

Powder X-ray diffraction, electron diffraction and electron microscopic experiments,
including high-resolution electron microscopy, have revealed that the Al─ Cu─ Fe …

A common feature of stable quasicrystals, high-T C ferroelectrics, and high-T c
superconductors is that their unusual physical properties are correlated with characteristic …

The metastable vacancy ordered phases observed in aluminium transition metal alloys on
rapid solidification or vapour deposition can be considered as a periodic arrangement of a …