Steels: Processing, Structure,
and
Performance
Author:
George Krauss ISBN: 0-87170-817-5
Product Code: 5140
Date: Aug 2005 Pages:
600
Price $ 205
Steels: Processing, Structure, and Performance is a
comprehensive guide to the broad, dynamic
physical metallurgy of steels. The
volume is an extensively revised and updated edition of the
classic 1990
book Steels: Heat Treatment and Processing Principles. Eleven new chapters
expand
the coverage in the previous edition, and other chapters have been
reorganized and updated.
This volume is an essential reference for anyone
who makes, uses, studies, or designs with steel.
The interrelationships between chemistry, processing,
structure, and performance--the elements
of physical metallurgy--are
integrated for all the types of steel discussed. The evolution,
characterization, and performance of steel microstructures are described,
with increased emphasis
on deformation and fracture. Heat treatment remains
a vital aspect of the manufacture of steel
products, and the coverage of
thermal processing and its effect on steels is expanded in this edition.
Dramatic changes in steel manufacture have occurred in
the 15 years since the publication of the
1990 edition. Low-carbon sheet
steels have experienced the most dynamic changes: thermal
processing of
sheet steels on a massive continuous scale has produced new grades with only
subtle changes in chemistry. Low carbon sheet steels, together with
strengthening mechanisms,
developments in microalloyed forging steels,
steels with bainitic and a variety of ferritic
microstructures, quench and
tempered steel performance, high-carbon steels for rail and ultra-high
strength wire, and the causes of low toughness and embrittlement are all
discussed in new chapters.
Brief coverage is provided on the history of
steel, including the time frame for important developments.
A link to
steelmaking and solidification is made in the chapter on the effects of primary
processing on
steel microstructure.
The text is meant to be informative, readable,
up-to-date, and self contained. Principles, concepts, and
understanding of
microstructural evolution and performance, within the framework of processing
and
properties, are illustrated, by plots of data, micrographs and schematic
diagrams. A special effort has
been made to include references to the most
pertinent books, reviews, and technical papers on a given
subject.
Contents: Steel Definitions and
Specifications · History and Primary Steel Processing · Phases and
Structures · Pearlite, Ferrite, and Cementite ·
Martensite · Bainite · Ferritic Microstructures · Austenite
in Steel · Primary Processing Effects on Steel
Microstructure and Properties · Isothermal and Continuous
Cooling Transformation Diagrams · Deformation,
Strengthening, and Fracture of Ferritic Microstructures ·
Low Carbon Steels · Normalizing, Annealing, and
Spheroidizing Treatments; Ferrite/Pearlite Microstructures
in Medium-Carbon Steels · Non-Martensitic Strengthening
of Medium-Carbon Steels: Microalloying and
Bainitic Strengthening · High-Carbon Steels: Fully
Pearlitic Microstructures and Applications · Hardness
and Hardenability · Tempering of Steel · Deformation,
Mechanical Properties and Fracture of Quench and
Tempered Steels · Low Toughness and Embrittlement
Phenomena in Steels · Residual Stresses, Distortion,
and Heat Treatment · Surface Hardening · Stainless
Steels · Tool Steels · Glossary of Selected Terms ·
Temperature Conversions · Hardness Conversions ·
Index
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