1. Editorial

   • James A. Salsgiver

   EditorialNotes Pages: 151 - 151

2. News briefs

   News Pages: 153 - 155

3. Materials and the environment

   Legacy Pages: 156 - 159

4. Heat treat hotspot

   Legacy Pages: 159 - 162

5. Calender of events

   Events Pages: 162 - 166

6. Permanent magnet materials—Developments during the past 12 months

   • H. H. Stadelmaier
   • E.- Th. Henig

   OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 174

7. New permanent magnets and new processing techniques

   • J. Wecker
   • S. Schultz
   • C. Kuhrt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 181

8. Recent progress in 2:17-type permanent magnets

   • A. E. Ray
   • S. Liu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 191

9. Rare-earth nitrides and carbides: A new class of permanent magnet materials

   • G. C. Hadjipanayis
   • Y. Z. Wang
   • W. B. Yelon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 203

10. High-resolution electron microscope study of the grain boundary phase in rapidly quenched Nd-Fe-B permanent magnet alloys

    • L. Li
    • D. E. Luzzi
    • C. D. Graham

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 209

11. A new refining process for iron oxide using iron ore and its application to hard ferrites

    • S. Nakashima
    • Y. Ikeda
    • T. Ito

    OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 218

12. Magnetic properties of high-efficiency core materials NC-M3 and NC-M4

    • T. Kubota
    • T. Nagai

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 225

13. Energy-efficient steels for motor laminations

    • F. E. Werner
    • R. I. Jaffee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 234

14. Importance of rotational losses in rotating machines and transformers

    • A. J. Moses

    OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 244

15. An on-line grain size measuring system for grain-oriented steels

    • R. Taylor
    • P. Beckley

    OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 248

16. Detection of fatigue in structural steels by magnetic property measurements

    • M. K. Devine
    • D. A. Kaminski
    • D. C. Jiles

    OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 253

17. Novel method for preparation of silver-tin oxide electrical contacts

    • H. Chang
    • C. H. Pitt
    • G. B. Alexander

    OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 260

18. Predictive creep response of linear viscoelastic graphite/epoxy composites using the laplace transform method

    • A. Rivera-Dominguez
    • W. M. Jordan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 261 - 265

19. Selective hardening in E52100 steel

    • F. W. Giacobbe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 274

20. Effects of electrodeposited zinc coating on the formability of drawing-quality aluminum-killed sheet steel

    • J. L. Milián

    OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 283

21. An investigation into the production of Bi- and Tri-layered strip by drawing through wedge-shaped dies

    • A. K. Taheri
    • S. A. Majlessi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 285 - 291