... on the damping of crystalline materials. Specific examples of the effects are presented for crystallographic order-disorder processes (for example, in 75Cu-25Au), partial melting of constituents in dental alloys (mercury-tin-silver) and in leaded alpha brass (copper-zinc-lead), magnetic transformations near...

... technique described at the Boulder Laser Damage Conference in 1984 for the measurement of thermal conductivity is presented in this paper. Data are given for bulk Si, SiC, Si/SiC, and SiO 2 . These results are interpreted using simple theories of inhomogeneous or locally disordered materials. Also indicated...