Physical Metallurgy

David E. Laughlin is the ALCOA Professor of Physical Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has taught since 1974. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at CMU.He is the Principal Editor of the Metallurgical and Materials Transactions family of journals of ASM International and TMS. His research has centered on the investigation of the structure of materials by means of transmission electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction. He has studied various diffusional phase transformations by detailed analysis of their micro-structure as well as electron diffraction patterns. For the past 25 years he has focused on the investigation of the magnetic properties and microstructure of soft magnets (HITPERM), hard magnets (FePt and CoPt) and magnetic thin films for recording media. He co-chairs the Data Storage Systems Center Magnetic Recording Group. He has taught courses on physical metallurgy, electron microscopy, diffraction techniques, thermodynamics, crystallography, magnetic materials and phase transformations. He is a director of both the X-ray Central Facility and the Electron Optics Central Facility of the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University. He has more than 400 technical publications in the field of phase transformations, physical metallurgy and magnetic materials, and has edited or co-edited eight books and has ten U.S. Patents in the field of magnetic recording. He was elected as an Honorary member of the AIME and is a Fellow of ASM and TMS. Kazuhiro Hono is NIMS Fellow, Director of Magnetic Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

"How does one review The Bible? Editors R.W. Cahn and P. Haasen have succeeded in producing the Physical Metallurgy equivalent. This is the third revision of the famous work, and it represents a major extension to the previous edition with at least 50% more material packed into three very substantial volumes...." --Contemporary Physics"Considering the exactness and extent of the contents, this work represents an advanced textbook, and, at the same time, a suitable handbook for University." --Metallic Materials

• Volume I1. Crystal Structures of Metallic Elements and Compounds, by Walter Steurer2. Electron Theory of Complex Metallic Alloys, by U. Mizutani, M. Inukal, H. Sato and E. S. Zijlstra.3. Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams, by Arthur D. Pelton4. Metallic Glasses, by A. L. Greer5. Diffusion, by Guido Schmitz6. Defects in Metals, by H. Numakura7. Solidification, by William J. Boettinger and Dilip K. Banerjee8. Diffusional Phase Transformations in the Solid State, by William A. Soffa and David E. LaughlinVolume II9. Displacive Phase Transformations, by H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia10. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys, by G. Spanos and W. T. Reynolds, Jr.11. Orientation Mapping, by Anthony D. Rollett and Katayun Barmak12. Transmission Electron Microscopy For Physical Metallurgists, by Hamish L Fraser, David W McComb and Robert E A Williams13. X-ray and Neutron Scattering, by Gernot Kostorz14. Structure, Composition and Energy of Solid-Solid Interfaces, by James M. Howe15. Atom Probe Field Ion Microscopy, by Kazuhiro. Hono and Sudarsanam, Suresh16. Dislocations, by David Rodney and Joël Bonneville17. Plastic Deformation of Metals and Alloys, by Niels Hansen and Claire Barlow18. Fatigue Of Metals, by Pedro Peralta and Campbell Laird19. Magnetic Properties of Metals and Alloys, by Michael E. McHenry and David E. LaughlinVolume III20. Physical Metallurgy Of Light Alloys, by Jian-Feng Nie21. Physical Metallurgy of Steels, by H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia22. Physical Metallurgy Of The Nickel-Based Superalloys, by R.C. Reed and C.M.F. Rae23. Recovery and Recrystallization: Phenomena, Physics, Models, Simulation, by Dierk Raabe24. Porous Metals, by Russell Goodall and Andreas Mortensen25. Hydrogen in Metals, by R. Kirchheim, A. Pundt26. Physical Metallurgy of Nanocrystalline Metals, by Gerhard Wilde27. Computational Metallurgy, Long-Qing Chen and Yijia Gu