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Steel metallurgy : properties, specifications and applications /
This highly illustrated resource covers the characteristics, properties, specifications, heat treatment, and application of steels for engineering students, non-metallurgical engineers, and technicians, who will become "industry ready" with the information in this practical guide.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2015]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A. Dedication
- B. Preface
- Disclaimer
- C. Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction to steel: metallurgical characteristics and properties
- Introduction
- Introduction to steel, steel types and grouping of steels
- Importance and uniqueness of steel
- Introduction to properties of steels: property types and influencing factors
- Fabrication properties of steels
- Influence of microstructures on the properties of steels
- Difference between steel and cast iron: structure, properties and applications
- Summary
- Further readings
- 2. Formation of microstructures in steel: structure?property relationship
- Introduction
- Introduction to iron-carbon equilibrium diagram
- Austenite decomposition: formation of ferrite and pearlite
- Austenitic decomposition under isothermal and continuous cooling conditions: formation of bainite and martensite
- Nature and character of bainite and martensite
- Uniqueness of martensite: utility and utilisation
- Comparison of structures of ferrite, pearlite, bainite and martensite in steel
- Structure?property relationship in steel
- Summary
- Further readings
- 3. Influence of grain size and inclusions on the properties of steels
- Introduction
- Formation of grains and grain boundaries
- Formation of grains in steel and their structure
- Influence of grain size on mechanical properties of steels
- Grain size determination and measurement
- Formation of inclusions in steel
- Determination of inclusion types and ratings
- Effects of inclusions on the properties of steels
- Summary
- Further readings
- 4. Steelmaking and rolling for quality steel production
- Introduction
- Introduction to steelmaking processes for quality steel
- Salient process features for quality steelmaking
- Features of steelmaking by using ladle furnace and vacuum degassing
- Making clean steels for critical applications
- Killing of steel: killed, rimmed and balanced steels
- Steel casting routes
- Steel defects and their causes
- Constraints and limitations of inclusion control in steel
- Hot rolling processes
- Tasks of steel rolling
- Cold rolling of steel
- Summary
- Further readings
- 5. Properties of steel and their evaluation
- Introduction
- Types of steel properties, their significance and evaluation
- Mechanical and forming properties of steels: scope of testing and evaluation
- Common testing methods for steel
- Fatigue and creep testing of steels
- Low temperature properties of steel and their evaluation
- Formability testing of steels
- Metallographic testing of steels
- Non-destructive testing of steels
- Summary
- Further readings.
- 6. Classification and specification of steels: purpose, practice and role
- Introduction
- Purpose of steel standards, specifications and grades
- Classification of steels
- Steel standards and grades
- Steel designation system
- Equivalent grade of steels
- Summary
- Further readings
- Appendix to chapter 6
- 7. Properties and grades of steels: structural, engineering and stainless steels
- Introduction
- Influence of carbon and alloying elements on properties of steels
- Other factors influencing the properties of steels
- Structural steels: properties and applications
- Engineering steels: properties and applications
- Stainless steels: properties and applications
- Summary
- Further readings
- Appendix to chapter 7
- 8. Heat treatment and welding of steels
- Introduction
- Heat treatability of steels
- Heat treatment types and processes
- Surface hardening
- Thermo-chemical processes of hardening
- Development of special heat treatments: martempering and austempering
- Welding
- Metallurgical aspects of steel welding and precautions
- Summary
- Further readings
- Appendix to chapter 8
- 9. Selection and application of steel: role of quality, cost and failure analysis
- Introduction
- Introduction to reliability in performance
- Quality goals and quality cost
- Characteristics of failure in service life
- Sources of faults and failure: role of stress raisers and stress concentration in steel
- Failure modes and mechanisms: learning points for steel applications
- Prevention of failures: ultimate of steel application
- Summary
- Further readings
- 10. Selection and application of steels: case studies
- Introduction
- Road map to selection of steel: a review
- Case studies for steel selection and application: structural and flat product steels (sheet steel)
- Case studies of steel selection and application: engineering and long product steels
- Summary
- Further readings
- A. Appendices
- B. Glossary
- C. Bibliography.