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    Int J Adv Eng Sci Appl Math (December 2010) 2(4):125

    DOI 10.1007/s12572-011-0046-7 IIT, Madras

    PREFACE

    Microstructure engineering of materials


    B. S. Murty • Gandham Phanikumar

    Published online: 20 December 2011


    Ó Indian Institute of Technology Madras 2011

    Microstructure of most technical alloys for an engineering microstructure have opened new avenues in the microstruc-
    application would involve multiple phases that could differ in ture engineering.
    their physical properties, configuration, morphology, size, In this thematic volume, we present a collection of five
    volume fraction etc. While the choice of a material for a papers that bring out the microstructure engineering in the
    specific application could involve relevant functional prop- current state of the art. Arvind Kumar, Miha Zaloznik and
    erty, often a secondary property (such as freezing range, Herve Combeau have presented their work on prediction of
    toughness, corrosion or creep resistance, biological compati- equiaxed grain structure and macrosegregation in an industrial
    bility etc.) could play an overwhelming role in the successful steel ingot and have compared their results with experiments.
    usage of that material. Designing the microstructure, taking Sumantra Mandal, V. Subramanya Sarma and A. K. Bhadhuri
    the material and processing constraints into account, is one of have performed grain boundary engineering in alloy D9
    the major areas of materials research today. through thermo-mechanical processing and have studied
    In the recent past, several novel processing techniques have influence of process variables and delved on the aspects of
    emerged that have aimed at obtaining a specific microstruc- micro-mechanisms in depth. Georg J. Schmitz, Bernd Böttger,
    ture of the material with an intended application. Severe Jain Eiken, Markus Apel, Antoine Carré, Alexandre Viardin
    plastic deformation, electromagnetic processing of melts, and Gottfried Laschet have reviewed the current status of the
    multi-step thermo-mechanical processing, rapid solidification phase-field based simulations of microstructure evolution in
    are some examples of emerging techniques where research is technical grade alloys. Bikramjit Basu and Garima Tripathi
    focused on both the materials as well as the processing tech- have presented their work on processing and biological eval-
    nique to obtain the designed microstructure. Kinetic con- uation of porous hydroxyapatite/poly methyl methacrylate
    straints such as rate of deformation and rate of cooling hybrid composites. Seshacharyulu Tamirisakandala and Dan
    imposed during the processing have an important role in the Miracle have reviewed the efforts to engineer the microstruc-
    evolution of microstructure. Several new characterization ture of titanium alloys using small additions of boron as
    techniques and tools such as orientation imaging, focused ion alloying element. The materials covered in these studies are of
    beam milling and analytical electron microscopy have aided current interest for the industry and the processes chosen are of
    in assessing the efficacy of the engineering approach taken in high impact. This thematic issue has a fine balance of experi-
    the design of a microstructure. Advances in the computational mental and computational studies on the topic.
    modeling of the processing techniques and simulation of Articles in this theme were contributed by researchers
    whose groups have contributed significantly to this area for
    last several years. We hope that readers will find this issue
    valuable and informative on the theme of microstructure
    B. S. Murty  G. Phanikumar (&)
    engineering of materials. The ubiquitous presence of
    Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian
    Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India microstructure characterization tools in academic depart-
    e-mail: [email protected] ments of varied engineering disciplines indicates that
    B. S. Murty slowly and steadily, the mesoscale information of materials
    e-mail: [email protected] is being studied and engineered for desired performance.

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