Mechanical alloying of powder materials by ultrasonic milling.

An ultrasonic grinding mill was designed. It permits to carry out simultaneously intensive ultrasonic, mechanical and cavitation treatments of powder materials that in turn leads to sharp acceleration of diffusion, mass-transfer processes and solid phase reactions due to crystallite size and structure changing. It was shown that meta-stable non-equilibrium solid solution (Cu+Ni+Fe, Fe+C), and crystalline structure transformed (Fe(4)N: fcc-hcp transformation) powders could be obtained for the much shorter time in compare with traditional mechanical alloying in planetary ball mill.