Damascus and pattern-welded steels : forging blades since the iron age /
Steels are a class of materials with multiple and complicated transformations; this is true even for steels of the basic cutlery industry. A damascus steel is a fascinating subject to study, rich in multiple facets, that appears in a first approach as a composite material artistically exploited. Dama...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Les Ulis, France] :
EDP Sciences,
2014.
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Colección: | Science des matériaux
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Aknowledgements
- First part : The Blacksmith�s steel spanning four millennia
- 1 Primitive iron
- 2 Blacksmith steel before the Christian era
- 3 The swords of the first millennium AD
- 4 Did you say Damascus steel, Damascene or damask?
- 5 From swords to knives
- 6 The swords of the second millennium
- 7 Art and Technology in the third millennium
- Second part : Formation of the damask pattern
- 8 Understanding steels
- 9 Pattern-welding
- 10 Moire pattern in wootz type, high carbon steels
- 11 Alignments in medium carbon steels12 References
- 13 Index