This practical reference provides thorough and systematic coverage on both basic metallurgy and the practical engineering aspects of metallic material selection and application. Coverage includes, practical information on the engineering properties and applications of steels, cast irons, nonferrous alloys, and metal matrix composites.Concise overviews and practical implications of metallic structure, imperfections, deformation, and phase transformations. Process metallurgy of solidification and casting, recovery, recrystallization and grain growth, precipitation hardening mechanical deformation during processing and in-service properties of fatigue, fracture, and creep.Physical properties and corrosion.
Preface
Part 1 : Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy
Chapter 1 : Metallic Structure
Chapter 2 : Crystalline Imperfection and Plastic Deformation
Chapter 3 : Solid Solutions
Chapter 4 : Introduction to Phase Transformation
Chapter 5 : Diffusion
Chapter 6 : Phase Diagrams
Chapter 7 : Solidification and Casting
Chapter 8 : Recovery, Recrystallization and Grain Growth
Chapter 9 : Precipitation Hardening
Chapter 10 : The Iron-Carbon System
Chapter 11 : Heat Treatment of Steel
Chapter 12 : Mechanical Behavior
Chapter 13 : Fracture
Chapter 14 : Fatigue
Chapter 15 : Creep
Chapter 16 : Deformation Processing
Chapter 17 : Physical Properties of Metals
Chapter 18 : Corrosion
Part 2 : Engineering Alloys
Chapter 19 : Plain Carbon Steels
Chapter 20 : Alloy Steels
Chapter 21 : Surface Hardening of Steel
Chapter 22 : Tool Materials
Chapter 23 : Stainless Steels
Chapter 24 : Cast Irons
Chapter 25 : Copper
Chapter 26 : Aluminum
Chapter 27 : Magnesium and Zinc
Chapter 28 : Titanium
Chapter 29 : Nickel and Cobalt
Chapter 30 : Superalloys
Chapter 31 : Refractory Metals
Chapter 32 : Miscellaneous Nonferrous Metals
Chapter 33 : Metal-Matrix Composites
Appendix A : Metric Conversion
Appendix B : Crystalline System Calculation
Appendix C : Crystallographic Planes and Directions
Index
