Description
Steels: Structure and Properties, Fourth Edition is an essential text and reference, providing indispensable foundational content for researchers, metallurgists, and engineers in industry and academia. The book provides inspiring content for undergraduates, yet has a depth that makes it useful to researchers.
Steels represent the most used metallic material, possessing a wide range of structures and properties. By examining the properties of steels in conjunction with structure, this book provides a valuable description of the development and behavior of these materials—the very foundation of their widespread use.
The new edition has been thoroughly updated, with expanded content and improved organization, yet it retains its clear writing style, extensive bibliographies, and real-life examples.
- Contains a new chapter on nanostructured steels, with new content integrated into an existing chapter to describe the physical metallurgy of coatings, surface treatments, and multivariate high-performance steels
- Includes derivations with important equations so that students from a broad range of subjects can appreciate the issues without being bogged down in mathematics
- Presents new micrographs and figures that reflect the resolution and capabilities of modern instruments
Table of Contents
1. Iron and its Interstitial Solid Solutions2. The Strengthening of Iron and its Alloys3. The Iron–carbon Equilibrium Diagram and Plain Carbon Steels4. The Effects of Alloying Elements on Iron–carbon Alloys5. Formation of Martensite6. The Bainite Reaction7. Nanostructured Steels8. Acicular Ferrite9. The Tempering of Martensite10. Thermomechanical Treatment of Steels11. The Embrittlement and Fracture of Steels12. Stainless Steel13. Multivariate High-performance Steels14. Physical Metallurgy of Coatings and Surface Treatments15. Weld Microstructures
