Metallic Glasses

Metallic Glasses: From Structure and Stability to Design and Production provides an overview of the atomic structure of metallic glasses and shows how that structure influences the ability to predict and produce metallic glass alloys. In this book, the finer points of metallic glass structures are illustrated through the use of many figures and the full range of metallic glass structures and the most complex metallic glass compositions are discussed. This book has been written...
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Metallic Glasses: From Structure and Stability to Design and Production provides an overview of the atomic structure of metallic glasses and shows how that structure influences the ability to predict and produce metallic glass alloys. In this book, the finer points of metallic glass structures are illustrated through the use of many figures and the full range of metallic glass structures and the most complex metallic glass compositions are discussed. This book has been written to appeal to the growing number of metallic glass practitioners. It provides a simple set of rules for predicting new metallic glass alloys and for intelligently engineering existing alloys to improve properties while maintaining the ability to produce a metallic glass. Written in an easy-to-comprehend style, this book is able to present the concepts of metallic glass structures for a broad audience. It includes new data that has not previously been published and so will prove useful to the mature research scientists in the metallic glass field, as well as the non-specialist wishing to learn more about this intriguing field.

• · Includes a clear description of the structures of metallic glasses and the physical principles that produce them

  · Discusses the influence of atomic structure on the stability and properties of metallic glasses

  · Provides a predictive model to design new metallic glass alloys with good glass-forming ability while also achieving other desired properties (including density, cost and stiffness)