Steels : processing, structure, and performance

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Krauss, George, 1933-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Materials Park, Ohio : ASM International, 2005.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781615030507
1615030506
0871708175
9780871708175
Physical Description1 online resource (xix, 613 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : purpose of text, 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 factor of quench and tempered carbon steels
  • Low toughness and embrittlement phenomena in steels
  • Residual stresses, distortion, and heat treatment
  • Surface hardening
  • Surface modification
  • Stainless steels
  • Tool steels
  • Appendix 1. Glossary of selected terms
  • Appendix 2. Hardness conversions
  • Appendix 3. Temperature conversions.