Steel Heat Treatment Handbook

One of two self-contained volumes belonging to the newly revised Steel Heat Treatment Handbook, Second Edition, this book focuses on process design, equipment, and testing used in steel heat treatment.

Steel Heat Treatment: Equipment and Process Design presents the classical perspectives that form the basis of heat treatment processes while incorporating detailed descriptions of the latest advances since the 1997 publication of the first edition. This book covers the basic principles of heat treatment and the equipment used in modern industrial settings. It also offers detailed coverage of induction heat treatment as well as important types of furnaces, heat transfer, cooling processes, computation, power supplies, laser treatments, residual stress and loading, microstructural analysis, and quality control. The book features thoroughly updated and new information, most notably in the chapters on vacuum heat processing, designing quench processes, laser hardening, and metallurgical property testing.

Steel Heat Treatment: Equipment and Process Design provides a focused resource for everyday use by advanced students and practitioners in metallurgy, process design, heat treatment, and mechanical and materials engineering.

Preface
Contributors

Chapter 1 : Fundamentals Concepts in Steel Heat Treatment
Chapter 2 : The Effects of Alloying Elements on the Heat Treatment of Steel
Chapter 3 : Hardenability
Chapter 4 : Quenching and Quenching Technology
Chapter 5 : Distortion of Heat-Treated Components
Chapter 6 : Heat Treatment Equipment
Chapter 7 : Vacuum Heat Treatment
Chapter 8 : Steel Heat Treatmnet
Chapter 9 : Heat Treatment with Gaseous Atmospheres
Chapter 10 : Nitriding Techiques and Methods
Chapter 11A : Induction Heat Treatment: Basic Principles,Computation,Coil Construction and Design Considerations
Chapter 11B : Induction Heat Treatment: Modern power supplies,Load Matching,Process Control and Monitoring
Chapter 12 : Heat Treatment of Power Metallurgy Steel Components
Chapter 13 : Metallurgical Property Testing
Chapter 14 : Mechanical property Testing Methods
Chapter 15 : Steel Nomenclature
Chapter 16 : Environmental and Safety regulation Affecting Heat Treaters

Appendix 1 Common Conversion Constants
Appendix 2 Temperature Conversion Table
Appendix 3 Volune Conversion Table
Appendix 4 Hardness Conversion Tables: Hardened Steel Heat Alloys
Appendix 5 Recommended MIL 6875 Specification Steel Heat Treatment Conditions
Appendix 6 Colors of Harding and Tempering Heats
Appendix 7 Weight Tables for Steel Bars
Index