First published August 2002

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Dedicated to

Late Professor Dr. Henry H. Hausner,

who inspired me to write this book

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About the Author

Dr. G.S. Upadhyaya was educated at Banaras Hindu University (B.Sc. Met. Engg.) and earned M.Sc. (Phys. Met.) and PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK) and the Kiev Institute of Technology (Ukraine), respectively. At Kiev, he worked under the world famous scientist Academician G.V. Samsonov. He began his career as a PM educator at the University of Roorkee (1964). In 1976, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, as a Professor in powder metallurgy in the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, where he proceeded to build a reputation for himself as well as for the IIT as an authority on powder metallurgy. Here, through his numerous publications (over 250 papers and eight books) and his students, who...