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Phase formation under non-equilibrium processing conditions: rapid solidification processing and mechanical alloying

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Rapid solidification processing (RSP) of metallic alloys, involving solidification of liquid metals at very high rates, results in the formation of a variety of metastable phases such as supersaturated solid solutions, crystalline intermetallic compounds, quasicrystalline phases, and metallic glasses. Additionally, significant refinement of the grain sizes and segregation patterns also occurs. Mechanical alloying (MA), another powerful non-equilibrium processing technique, utilizes repeated cold welding, fracturing, and rewelding of powder particles in a high-energy ball mill. MA also results in the formation of metastable phases and microstructural refinement similar to what happens during RSP. Consequently, comparisons are frequently made between the phases produced by RSP and MA and the general understanding is that they both result in similar metastable effects. A detailed analysis of the metastable phases produced by RSP and MA is made in the present work, and it is shown that even though the effects may appear similar, the mechanisms of formation and the composition ranges in which particular phases form are quite different. These two methods also have some unique features and produce different phases. The differences have been ascribed to the fact that RSP involves solidification from the melt while MA is a completely solid-state process that is not restricted by the phase diagram.

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Suryanarayana, C. Phase formation under non-equilibrium processing conditions: rapid solidification processing and mechanical alloying. J Mater Sci 53, 13364–13379 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-018-2197-4

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