Mechanical alloying (MA) has been utilized to synthesize many equilibrium and/or nonequilibrium phases. During the MA process, alloys are formed by the solid-state reaction. Solid solution has been obtained by MA, strain occurs due to the dissolution one component in the binary system. An understanding of the strain in mechanical alloyed Ti – Al , Fe – Al , Ni – Al from the electronic level has remained elusive. In this communication, atomic strain behavior of Ti – Al , Fe – Al , Ni – Al systems is analyzed on the basis of the TFDC (abbreviation of the name of Thomas, Fermi, Dirac, and Cheng) electron theory. Lattice strain of Ti , Fe , Ni , and Al are compared with available experimental results. A very good coincidence was found.