JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS VOLUMES 211/212, SEPTEMBER 1994 Contents Preface Of £2 &.4.¢2. 82 4° O42 6 6.0.0 Paes €.0 82242 £2 8s 86 CC. eS: 8 be ee OS: OB 88 eb Oe ew Se 2S 2 CS SD. SC Oe ce Se © 6. Se 6. 6 SO ve 6. SSS 6 Se Se ee Committees and Topics *¢ e248 048 @Oe@¢O82 46 @ 0 86 8.0.8 86°68 ¢ é Oo & 2 ee 6 O'S Ss £ O Od. & hb 2. ow 6 6 6 2 Oe S-8- oe ee @ te Sere ie Se 6. 6. 678 Sponsors Historical reviews Remembrances of Clarence Zener C. Wert (Urbana, IL, USA) Early work on dislocations and point defects at low and intermediate frequencies 2 Ae O42 ££ 422k So 6 2.8: OS B.S & Boe A.S. Nowick (New York, NY, USA) Development of the torsion pendulum and early research on grain boundary relaxation and the cold-work internal Ee Se ee ee EEE OE ee TE EE eT CE PE ELE CRE CUTE FC ee Pa T.S. Ké (Ge Tingsui) (Hefei, China) A SS rg Os ke ee ae eee otB ice 6a eb na ee ie ee at) sew ewe eae 16 P.G. Bordoni (Rome, Italy) Ultrasonic studies of condensed matter in the 1950s and beyond 2, eo 0 6-8 6 6 8 Oe O36 4 8 8 Ot 2.2.6 oe @ @ Os & oo 6 S626 C. Elbaum (Providence, RI, USA) Point defects Internal friction and sound velocity of polycrystalline metals at very low temperatures o'? 8 G18 6.2 2 4° F2'e 6. 4 & @ Oreo Be P. Esquinazi, R. Kénig, D. Valentin and F. Pobell (Bayreuth, Germany) Q~' spectra connected with C under solute atom interaction P. Gondi and R. Montanari (Rome, Italy) Anelastic behaviour in Nb-Ti alloys containing interstitial elements.......0.2.. .c.ec.e .ee.e e.ee. e.ee e O. Floréncio, W.J. Botta F. (SAo Carlos, SP, Brazil), C.R. Grandini (Bauru, SP, Brazil), H. Tejima and J.A.R. Jordao (Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil) Analysis of the Snoek relaxation in niobium—oxygen with low interstitial content * €@.8- @ @ 6 £ 62.0 a 2. 8 2 6-6 6. 2b 6.69 6 8. oe SO F. Povolo and O.A. Lambri (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Interaction of dissolved atoms and “hydrogen Snoek-type relaxation” in Nb and Ta (computer simulation) M.S. Blanter (Moscow, Russian Federation) Internal friction in pure iron nitrogenated by different methods .....2.0.... c.ece. eee. ee.e ee. eee. ee ns A. Ghilarducci, A. Vertanessian (Bariloche, RN, Argentina), J. Feugeas and G. Sanchez (Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) Migration mechanism of self-interstitial atoms in Mo after low temperature irradiation PS Se Pee eS ee ee ee Te Te COT eT eS ee COTE CURT TOC E UTC U RT Tee H. Tanimoto, H. Mizubayashi, N. Teramae and S. Okuda (Ibaraki, Japan) Temperature dependence of the internal friction and modulus change in Y,O;- and M,O-doped ZrO, polycrystals L.F.C.P. Lima, A.L.E. Godoy and E.N.S. Muccillo (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Stress-induced reorientation of oxygen—hydrogen complexes in a Ta7;Nbz5 alloy... .....2.. ee. ee .eee. eee ee A. Biscarini, R. Campanella, B. Coluzzi, F.M. Mazzolai (Perugia, Italy) and C. Costa (Terni, Italy) Mechanical loss measurements on yttria- and calcia-stabilized zirconia M. Weller (Stuttgart, Germany) Déechemtons foes atedees GE C4) GOGCRORIOMS HO TR. wn cheer ccc ert mers esceseeceeeeeereseenr G. Haneczok (Katowice, Poland), M. Weller and J. Diehl (Stuttgart, Germany) Internal friction and substitutional—interstitial interaction in niobium-based alloys 75 eee eeeerne@eeeeuweosve@enksett € eae es @ 6 N.P. Kushnareva and S.E. Snejko (Kiev, Ukraine) Anelastic relaxation of H trapped by Zr in Nb single crystals ... 1... 2... eee ee ee ee eee ee eee 80 G. Cannelli, R. Cantelli, F. Cordero, F. Trequattrini (Rome, Italy) and H. Schultz (Stuttgart, Germany) Elsevier Science S.A. x Contents Dislocations and their interaction with lattice imperfections Amplitude-dependent internal friction and plasticity of crystals... 1... ... . ce eee ee te ee ee eee B.K. Kardashev, S.B. Kustov, A.B. Lebedev and S.P. Nikanorov (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) Nonlinear mechanical relaxation associated with dislocation—point defect interaction T.S. Ké (Ge Tingsui) (Hefei, China) Variation in internal friction and ultrasonic attenuation in aluminium during the early stage of fatigue loading... . Z. Zhu and G. Fei (Hefei, China) Thermally activated recovery of polycrystalline cadmium deformed by anisotropic thermal expansion a2 2.4 2: 4-806.6 0686 M.H. Youssef (Cairo, Egypt) and P.G. Bordoni (Rome, Italy) Study of the dislocation relaxation peaks in easy glide deformed silver single crystals having different length-to-width ratios rr rr rn en ee ee a ene ee ae ef es ee ef oe Se O.8 oe oa BY BO eeteeeseaeeeneeee4seereeedteoe@e?8 @80¢060 6808886 8 W.E. Alnaser and M.M. Zein (Bahrain, Bahrain) sk ke ei 6 ba Cee 8 6 ee be Ree hee bee er eee res enetes D.N. Beshers and V.F. Coronel (New York, NY, USA) Internal friction due to twinning dislocations in Cu—Ge solid solution alloys....0..0.00. .e e.ee. e.e e.e e H. Numakura (Kyoto, Japan), K. Hasegawa (Kawasaki, Japan), M. Koiwa (Kyoto, Japan), H. Fukuda, R. Taniguchi and S. Tsukui (Osaka, Japan) PT OEE UCC ESOP OREO EEE TEE CLEC TET G. Gremaud, B. Quenet and W. Benoit (Lausanne, Switzerland) Dislocation-like relaxations in cold deformed metallic glasses ewe ee eoeoet.echeesce eevee ens BO Ge ereeecaesveee#nresee V.A. Khonik (Voronezh, Russian Federation) Internal friction associated with grain boundaries in Ni-Cr alloys... .....2.. ce.ce .ee ee.e e.e eee. ee ns B. Cao, R. Schaller, W. Benoit (Lausanne, Switzerland) and F. Cosandey (Piscataway, NJ, USA) Self-organized criticality and dislocation damping en or oe ne ee ee ee eek es ee eb ae ee eS eS ee 2.8 et 8 te ee Cee ee 2 Ce 4 & @ F. Marchesoni (Perugia, Italy) Low-temperature mechanical loss measurements of 5N and 6N lead oe eee & 6.8 Ss Se eS ee 6 Se Se 2.3.86 8 Be: & SLO 2.90.3 O. Progin, G. Gremaud and W. Benoit (Lausanne, Switzerland) Ss 2. cla eb ea lee «6 5-60 848 O04 Ole VO Nib s ee reeheseoes D. Wagner, C. Prioul and D. Francois (Chatenay Malabry, France) Migration mechanism of self-interstitial atoms in Mo after low temperature irradiation EEE RE OE PE EN en ge ae ee ae ee ra ae H. Tanimoto, H. Mizubayashi, N. Teramae and S. Okuda (Ibaraki, Japan) The power spectrum associated with a kink chain oscillating in a non-stokesian atmosphere of paraelastic inter- Stitials a ee a ee i ee en ee an i ee a ee fae se es £8 es ee ee eee oe 2 2 OSC ee vreecdeékeeneeeenseewee@een0n 8 ee 6 2 6 ® T. Ogurtani and R. Gungor (Ankara, Turkey) High-temperature internal friction in aluminium studied by isothermal mechanical spectrometry eo 2 eS 2 as. ££ 6 6 2 Oo 8 A. Riviére and J. Woirgard (Poitiers, France) Internal friction and modulus defect in a-Fe-based, high-alloyed (Cr, Mo) hidamets 2 S-oce.6¢ & 2 -6°s, 66.8 2 ee 2 6 e@ 6 B 6 I.S. Golovin (Moscow, Russian Federation) Dislocation damping and associated modulus defect in copper crystals... ...... 0.0.0. cee eee ee eee ee A.O. Moreno Gobbi (Montevideo, Uruguay) and J.A. Eiras (S4o Paulo, Brazil) Numerical simulation of anelastic behaviour and microdeformation due to dislocations coe. +.s 6 & 2.8 84 4 88 C:% +e Oe J.F. Rojas, J.San Juan and M.L. N6 (Bilbao, Spain) Photoacoustic properties of Hgl, single crystals at different levels of ultrasound strain amplitude Se. £6. 9° 6.2 2 2 OG OO Ss B.K. Kardashev (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) Amplitude-dependent internal friction and dislocation inelastic strain in zinc and aluminium single crystals S.N. Golyandin and S.B. Kustov (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) Low-temperature thermal cycling of metal-matrix composites studied by the ultrasonic low-frequency stress-coupling AG e 4 65a ee ee oid Ae id A eM ala Nite hire So Sethi bG-% oe Bin. S 0 8 WR 60 ep 04 We 8 a ROS oA ATO ED C. Girard, R. Fougéres and A. Vincent (Villeurbanne, France) Contents xi Amplitude-dependent internal friction in dilute copper—aluminium alloys with three kinds of peaks ............ 173 K. Ishii (Nagoya, Japan) The similarity law between the temperature dependences of yield stress and microyield stress evaluated from internal Te ee ee et ee ee a re Se ee ere se ee eae wis ee a 177 A.B. Lebedev (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) Study of non-linear effects related to the Snoek—K6ster relaxation in Nb..........00.0 .ee. e.ee .ee.ee s 181 B.J. Molinas, O. Lambri (Rosario, Argentina) and M. Weller (Stuttgart, Germany) Phase transformations: (a) displacive transitions; (b) order—disorder transitions and precipitation Investigations of the elastic behaviour in the vicinity of ferroelectric phase transitions ..................... 185 G. Sorge and U. Straube (Halle/Saale, Germany) Non-linear elastic properties of CuZnAl alloys near martensitic transformation.................2220020008 190 A. Biscarini, B. Coluzzi and F.M. Mazzolai (Perugia, Italy) The influence of chemical composition and thermal treatments on the temperature-dependent internal friction of Fe—Ni Se: ae a ee Ta a eR oo ao 04 ior od ee Ae eee ewer n8k Ssh ek eek es 194 S. Golovin (Tula, Russian Federation), I. Golovin, Y. Rodionov (Moscow, Russian Federation) and V. Seleznev (Tula, Russian Federation) Studies on pre-bainitic transformation in Cu-Zn—Al—Mn alloy ....0.... c.ece .eee. ee e.ee e.ee e.ee ene 198 H. Shen, Z. Zhang, Y. Yang, Y. Wang and G. Shen (Nanjing, China) The influence of ageing on the reversible martensitic transformation in Cu-Zn—Al alloys.................64. 201 J. Ilczuk, B. Kostrubiec, H. Morawiec and J. Rasek (Katowice, Poland) Effects of thermal and thermomechanical cycling on the phase transformations in NiTi and Ni-Ti—Co shape-memory Ce ono: RO ecole a a ke 6 ek Cac e660 0 0-6 Ok Ck NS 0864 Fo Bae he thee bee 204 L. Jordan, M. Masse, J.-Y. Collier and G. Bouquet (Paris, France) Internal friction of Fo-hGm-Gi-Cy SROO-EROGROSY GOP. 00 ccc ccc errs reese sersenererereunes 208 I. Yoshida (Fukushima, Japan) and H. Otsuka (Kanagawa, Japan) Internal friction in Fe-Mn-—Cr-Si-Ni shape memory alloys. .......... 2... cece eee eee ee eee eee eee eens 212 R.B. Pérez-Saez, M.L. N6 and J. San Juan (Bilbao, Spain) Hydrogen in metals and semiconductors Mechanical spectroscopy with hydrogen in intermetallic phases... ......... 0. ee eee eee ee eee eee eee eee 216 H.-R. Sinning (Braunschweig, Germany) Reorientation of diatomic H-Y complexes in dilute Pd-Y alloys.2.... 0.. cec.e e.e e.e e.ee e.ee .eee. ee e 222 M. Ege, G. Hauptmann, W. Ulfert and H. Kronmiiller (Stuttgart, Germany) Anelastic relaxation due to O-H pairs in Nb-Zr alloys... 00. ccc ccc ce sce cre cc ecsereseeseesseser 226 C.R. Grandini (Bauru, SP, Brazil), W.J. Botta Filho, O. Floréncio, H. Tejima and J.A.R. Jordao (Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil) Hydrogen-induced internal friction in NiZzs. .. ww ccc cr cr crc c ewe cccceseseeraseesecesecoees 229 G. Steckler and H.-R. Sinning (Braunschweig, Germany) Features of elastic energy dissipation in the Pd—Ag-H system ..... 2... 0. eee eee ee ee eee ees 233 F.A. Lewis, R.-A. McNicholl (Belfast, UK), A. Biscarini, B. Coluzzi, C. Costa and F.M. Mazzolai (Perugia, Italy) Hydrogen internal friction peak and thermal desorption spectrum in amorphous Cug)Zry. ... 2... ee ee ee ee 237 "H. Mizubayashi, M. Matsumoto and S. Okuda (Ibaraki, Japan) Thermal activation parameters and the annealing process of the hydrogen relaxation peak in an austenitic stainless CD 5 ike 5 Mae SE ee BERS SS oS SBF ERE SAREE SELON TES Ra PE REE ECE EEE OD ERK SEE E CRS 241 G. Li (Shenyang, China) Measurement of hydrogen solubility during isothermal charging in a Zr alloy using an internal friction technique 245 Z.L. Pan, M.P. Puls and I.G. Ritchie (Manitoba, Canada) The influence of hydrogen and dislocations on the internal friction in yttrium .............-. 05222 eee 249 B. Kappesser, H. Wipf (Darmstadt, Germany), R.G. Barnes and B.J. Beaudry (Ames, IA, USA) Tunnelling of H trapped by substitutional Zr in Nb: an investigation on its geometry G. Cannelli, R. Cantelli, F. Cordero and F. Trequattrini (Rome, Italy) xii Contents Oxide superconductors Or eke iio), obs ie ety 6006s CSR EO ODS Bee Ewe Oe e bee eee G. Cannelli, R. Cantelli, F. Cordero, N. Piraccini, F. Trequattrini (Rome, Italy) and M. Ferretti (Genoa, Italy) Ultrasonic anomalies and phase transitions in the Y,Ba,Cu,O, and the Y,_,Ca,Ba,Cu,O, systems ............. W. Ting and K. Fossheim (Trondheim, Norway) Elastic aftereffect study of the ferroelastic tetragonal—-orthorhombic phase transition in YBa,Cu,O, oe me 8. 6.86 6 2 € a F. Brenscheidt, D. Seidel and H. Wipf (Darmstadt, Germany) Low temperature mechanical energy dissipation phenomena in praseodymium-doped yttrium superconductors ..... M. Gazda, B. Kusz, R.J. Barczynski (Gdansk, Poland), O. Gzowski (Camerino, Italy), L. Murawski (Gdansk, Poland) and S. Stizza (Camerino, Italy) EE SE ee ae eee ee ee eee ee ee eee eee eee J. Dominec, V. Plechaéek, P. VaSek (Praha, Czech Republic) and C. Laermans (Heverlee, Belgium) Low temperature torsion pendulum measurements on YBCO superconductors .....0..000. ce.e e.ee .een s P. Devos, R. De Batist (Antwerp, Belgium), J. Cornelis and F. Servaes (Mol, Belgium) Dependence of dissipation on magnetic field orientation in high 7, superconductor ceramics J. Li, J.S. Zhu, X.F. Xu and Y.N. Wang (Nanjing, China) Analysis of the oxygen relaxation spectrum in YBa,Cu,O,,, at high temperature Y. Mi, R. Schaller and W. Benoit (Lausanne, Switzerland) se ke se kdl tele eee be eee Oe 0 be be eee eee ee ees L. Murawski, R.J. Barczynski, K. Trzebiatowski, D. Samatowicz, B. Koscielska, M. Gazda, B. Kusz and O. Gzowski (Gdansk, Poland) Acoustic absorption in high-temperature superconductors due to pseudo-Jahn-Teller centres = Ss £2 &@'[email protected] 6 82 6-80 6s €. 6.8 L. Mihailov, A. Manov and A. Vavrek (Sofia, Bulgaria) eA a eee ala rta Sak ek BGG: bbw eb. 64 Fh OOH 6 Oe 0008 § #0 0 wee eo os P. Gadaud and B. Kaya (Poitiers, France) The effect of neutron and y irradiation on YBCO and B(Pb)SCCO high-7, superconductors Seo 62 2 8 8.8 4 € 6 28.0 2 8 8 M.M. Zein and W.E. Alnaser (Bahrain, Bahrain) Mechanical damping effects by flux lines in YBa,Cu,O,, thin films......2..2..2 .ee.e .eee. e.e e.e .een s C. Hiinnekes, H.G. Bohn, W. Schilling and H. Schulz (Julich, Germany) Elastic Ccomsequences Of the dielectric behavior Of YBaCwsO5g. 1 ccc cc cere cece eet cece see ens C. Hucho, D. Maurer (Berlin, Germany) and V. Miiller (Augsburg, Germany) Stoichiometry dependence of oxygen anelastic relaxation in YBa,Cu,0;_, and the orthorhombic-to-tetragonal phase ae. a cee ee See Lik esse ee a ee OE ROSS 6 OR OR HERS SO Oe Re eR eee eRe eee we E. Bonetti, E.G. Campari, P. Mattioli and A. Zingaro (Bologna, Italy) Piezoelectric effect and ultrasonic attenuation near 7, in single-crystal YBa,Cu,;O,_, superconductors 6 o..6° 6 @ 4-2 2 Bs T.J. Kim, E. Mohler and W. Grill (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Amorphous materials and superionic conductors Low energy excitations in amorphous materials: acoustic experiments and comparison with theoretical models G. Weiss (Karlsruhe, Germany) Theoretical basis and general applicability of the coupling model to relaxations in coupled systems ............ K.L. Ngai (Washington, DC, USA), Y.-N. Wang (Nanjing, China) and L.B. Magalas (Cracow, Poland) Anciasticitty and viscosity of superionic conducting glasses .. 0. eee cere ec eer eseccene Y. Hiki, H. Takahashi (Hitachi, Japan) and H. Kobayashi (Tsukuba, Japan) Relative variation in the sound velocity in polymethyl methacrylate at intermediate low temperatures R. Nava and R. Oentrich (Caracas, Venezuela) Effect of passing electric current on the elastic property of amorphous alloys H. Mizubayashi and R. Takemoto (Ibaraki, Japan) Correlation between mechanical and electrical losses in transition metal oxide glasses ee pp 6 Oe ee Pe CO RW + 8S ea eS L. Murawski, R.J. Barczynski, D. Samatowicz and O. Gzowski (Gdarisk, Poland) Ultrasonic attenuation in a-quartz as a result of E’ defect centres A. Manov (Sofia, Bulgaria) Contents Ferroelectric and ceramic materials Mechanical loss and elastic modulus associated with phase transitions of barium titanate ceramics............. B.L. Cheng (Guangzhou, China), M. Gabbay, G. Fantozzi (Villeurbanne, France) and W. Duffy Jr. (Santa Clara, CA, USA) Mechanical and dielectric loss related to ferroelectric and relaxor phase transitions and domain walls Y.N. Wang and Y.N. Huang (Nanjing, China) The relation between internal friction and tensile creep deformation on alumina ceramics S. Sakaguchi, N. Murayama, Y. Kodama and F. Wakai (Nagoya, Japan) Anelastic relaxation associated with the intergranular phase in silicon nitride and zirconia ceramics 6 © @ 2.6 © 2 & se 3s A. Lakki and R. Schaller (Lausanne, Switzerland) Ultrasonic dispersion in the phase transition region of ferroelectric materials of @ oe. 6.8 82 8 2 6.02 ok 6. Oe Oo ee Oe C..2.4 308 V. Valevichius, V. Samulionis and J. Banys (Vilnius, Lithuania) Internal friction in ceria ceramics doped with alkali earth metal oxides etree OO. Coaeec ee 8.64 6 dees 8 6 ££ OS. 2 eS K. Matsushita (Osaka, Japan) Internal friction study of transformation dynamics in BaTiO; ceramics....02.00.2 .ee.e .ee.e .ee.e .eee e J.X. Zhang, W. Zheng (Guangzhou, China), P.C.W. Fung (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and K.F. Liang (Guangzhou, China) Composites and polymers Dynamical mechanical analysis of glass-transition peaks in polymers and composites D.P. Almond, B. Harris, R.G. Hallett and O.G. Braddell (Bath, UK) ee ee ee Ie I a ono 0 6-00 S oe 8 S68 8 a BE 8 08 EASES OO M. Weller (Stuttgart, Germany) and C. Wert (Urbana, IL, USA) A study of the internal friction and modulus of epoxy-resin-dispersed nanometre-sized alumina particles L. Zhang, C. Xie and X. Zhu (Hefei, China) Study by mechanical spectroscopy of the dislocation substructure in an aluminium matrix composite reinforced by OT ee ee ee ee Se ee Te COE TE CREE ECE EC ECO CTO RL eee ee S. Urreta and R. Schaller (Lausanne, Switzerland) Influence of a changing microstructure on high temperature relaxation peaks, an example: WC-11lwt.%Co J.J. Ammann and R. Schaller (Lausanne, Switzerland) AlCu—Al,O, metal matrix composites studied by mechanical spectroscopy 62 22 ©. 2 6 6.6 4 2 20 "@-O@ oe. 6-8 O22 0 O22 4.8228 2 L. Parrini and R. Schaller (Lausanne, Switzerland) Modelling and numerical computation of transient internal damping due to thermal expansion mismatch between matrix — fF ¢ ef fC lll MPSS Tee ECT eS ERE EOC OTE OUTER TOL TE ETT G. Lormand, C. Girard, R. Fougéres and A. Vincent (Villeurbanne, France) Transient internal damping in aluminium-based metal matrix composites ......50.06 .ee.e e.ee .ee 0ee e A. Vincent, C. Girard, G. Lormand and R. Fougéres (Villeurbanne, France) High temperature damping in dispersion-strengthened aluminium alloys .&.2 7 & 2 6 8 @ 4 2 do. 8.8 4 86.8 6 ©. 6 6 84.8 8 2 8 8 OC 8 A. Pichler (Linz, Austria), M. Weller and E. Arzt (Stuttgart, Germany) Identification and characterization of reclaimed and recycled polymers by ultrasound attenuation 6 2 @ 6-2 8 62 68 88 6 es C.M. Langton (Sheffield, UK), J.B. Hull, S. Barker and A.R. Jones (Bradford, UK) Thin films Grain boundary sliding in thin substrate-bonded Al films... . 2... 2.0... eee ce ee eee ee ee te eee M. Prieler, H.G. Bohn, W. Schilling and H. Trinkaus (Jiilich, Germany) he, a Oe, CS I aed deb eee ed cer ee ba ee 6ee Oe Rees C.M. Su and M. Wuttig (College Park, MD, USA) Internal friction and elastic moduli of V and Cr films on Si substrates .........02.02 .ee.e .ee.e 2eee. e ee O. Yoshinari, T. Ohta, T. Saitoh, S. Mibu and K. Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan) Thin film characterization using generalized Lamb waves and harmonic generation 7s @ 464 36 € 26 Oe be & Orr @ 8 Os. e 4 @ Ph. Richard, G. Gremaud, A. Kulik and O. Behrend (Lausanne, Switzerland) xiv Contents OE SS eee eA EEE EERO LA EEE H. Mizubayashi, T. Yamaguchi (Ibaraki, Japan), W. Song (Tokyo, Japan), A. Yamaguchi (Morioka, Japan) and R. Yamamoto (Tokyo, Japan) MEO FECT TE TOE RETRACT ETT H. Mizubayashi, T. Yamaguchi and Y. Yoshihara (Ibaraki, Japan) Loss mechanisms in fine-grained ferroelectric ceramic thin films for ULSI memories (DRAMs) neo @ 6.8 Oe. & 86 & Oo 8 o @ J.F. Scott, C.A. Paz de Araujo and B.M. Melnick (Colorado Springs, CO, USA) Preparation and characterization of (Tb,Dy)Fe, giant magnetostrictive thin films for surface acoustic wave devices 455 H.H. Uchida, V. Koeninger, H. Uchida, M. Wada, H. Funakura, Y. Matsumura (Kanagawa, Japan), T. Kurino and H. Kaneko (Tokyo, Japan) LES ES EE ee, eR a Ta ee ae ee 460 Q. Su, S.Z. Hua and M. Wuttig (College Park, MD, USA) Electron and phonon relaxation re i. aes ae we eek we eee ee Reece e eee eee eeees 464 D. Maurer (Berlin, Germany) Computer simulation on phonon transport in crystals with defects... 2... 0.0... eee ee ee ee eee 471 S. Ozawa and Y. Hiki (Hitachi, Japan) Grain boundaries, domain walls and interfaces Elastic and dissipative properties of metals with an ultrafine grain structure......0..0.20. .e e.e .ee. e.ee e 475 Ya.M. Soifer (Chernogolovka, Russian Federation) Non-linear mechanical relaxation associated with the viscous sliding of grain boundaries in aluminium bicrystals ... 480 X.S. Guan and T.S. Ké (Hefei, China) Relation between fabrication parameters and grain boundary internal friction peaks in commercial Al—-Mg-Si alloys 484 E. Carreno Morelli, A.A. Ghilarducci (Bariloche, RN, Argentina) and S.E. Urreta de Pereyra (Cérdoba, Argentina) Internal friction, thermal and structure analysis of nanocrystalline aluminium...................22000005 489 A. Al Sadi, E. Bonetti, P. Mattioli and G. Valdré (Bologna, Italy) I or ee ee aa ee ee ee 0 494 S. Okuda, F. Tang, H. Tanimoto and Y. Iwamoto (Ibaraki, Japan) The study of internal friction in metal-metal layered materials. .. 0... ccc cece reece reer eecees 498 S. Kiss, Z. Cseresnyés and I.Z. Harangozé (Debrecen, Hungary) General aspects of anelasticity and mechanical properties The temperature-independent component of the diaclastic effect... . 0... cc ce ce ccc wcrc ee eeees 503 A.V. Granato (Urbana, IL, USA) EE ee are 509 P. Buchhagen and W. Riehemann (Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany) SS a kets oe dog a 8 5 Ape wo Wd be-6 OO OP Oe ee OR ee eens 514 T. Otani, K. Hoshino and T. Kurosawa (Chiba, Japan) ET LE Ee er er ee ee ee ee 518 F. Povolo, O.A. Lambri (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and M.E. Torio (Rosario, Argentina) es oo ok ok sds ose eve seks wp eee wane ease eeeeens 522 F. Povolo and H.O. Mosca (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Analysis of the Snoek relaxation in Nb-—O alloys through the loss tangent distribution function............... 525 F. Povolo and C.L. Matteo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Relaxation strength and distribution function of an internal friction peak....0..2.0.0.0 .e.ee .eee. e.ee 529 E.B. Hermida and F. Povolo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 0 a gs ae a gsa os tna aig wei eat de Rie Oa) wee Rees bee 534 F. Mainardi (Bologna, Italy) The relaxation strength and the relaxation time of anelasticity experiments on foils or thin plates............. 539 H. Wipf, R. Schmidt (Darmstadt, Germany) and H. Trinkaus (Jiilich, Germany) Contents Acoustic emission and self-organized criticality associated with fracture processes during hydrogen precipitation in niobium 544 oe 62°66 £2. 2.9 2.0 28-078 82 2 2a er eae ee OC BSS ae esas tee) ee P e€ee BP ee |2~0eeeenevwesae st 6 8 o SB & 6 -&. Be. 2 oe 6 &@ 4 6. eo 4 2 2 Oo & oS G. Cannelli, R. Cantelli and F. Cordero (Rome, Italy) Magneto-elastic interactions Magnetoplastic effect in non-magnetic crystals and internal friction........0.0.0 ..e c.e.ce. .ee2ee.e e 548 V.I. Alshits, E.V. Darinskaya, O.L. Kazakova, E.Yu. Mikhina and E.A. Petrzhik (Moscow, Russian Federation) ee ee en ee ee rere eee en eee 554 I. Giesgen, J. Pankert (Aachen, Germany) and S. Ewert (Cottbus, Germany) The ultrasonic behaviour of ferrimagnetic yttrium iron garnet (YIG) crystal under pressure ................-. 557 H. Gu, F. Li and J. Wang (Beijing, China) “Giant” AE effect in amorphous alloys with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy................20e00ee00% 560 N.P. Kobelev (Chernogolovka, Russian Federation) Influence of magnetic fields on the internal friction of Ni ee See eee ee TE eT ere ee ee eee 563 B. 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