Overview
- Comprehensive technical survey of steels and cast iron
- Main focus on metallurgy
- Deals also with properties and the design of steels and cast iron as well as with their history
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Engineering Materials and Processes (EMP)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The history of iron and steel — of swords and ploughshares
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The Genesis of Microstructures
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Steels and cast irons
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About this book
The book comprises three parts. Part 1 gives a historical description of the development of ironworking techniques since the earliest times. Part 2 is the core of the book and deals with the metallurgical basis of microstructures, with four main themes: phase diagrams, solidification processes, diffusion, and solid state phase transformations. Part 3 begins by an introduction to steel design principles. It then goes on to consider the different categories of steels, placing emphasis on their specific microstructural features. Finally, a comprehensive reference list includes several hundred pertinent articles and books. The book is the work of a single author, thus ensuring uniformity and concision. It is intended for scientists, metallurgical engineers and senior technicians in research and development laboratories, design offices and quality departments, as well as for teachers and students in universities, technical colleges and other higher education establishments.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Madeleine Durand-Charre gained her Docteur-ès-Sciences degree at the Institut National Polytechnique in Grenoble, where she spent the remainder of her career as a teacher and research worker in the field of structural metallurgy. Her special interests concern the fundamental aspects of phase equilibria and their relationship to the microstructure of complex commercial alloys. Due to her combined teaching and research activities, one of her permanent preoccupations is to explain the mechanisms involved in the formation of microstructures and to illustrate them with the aid of examples either from simple systems or from more complex industrial materials. The present book concerning the microstructures of iron-base alloys is abundantly illustrated with explicit macro- and micrographs, emanating both from her own laboratory and from her numerous academic and industrial contacts. Madeleine Durand-Charre has previously published a similar monograph concerning the microstructure of superalloys.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microstructure of Steels and Cast Irons
Authors: Madeleine Durand-Charre
Series Title: Engineering Materials and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08729-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-20963-8Published: 15 March 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05897-4Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-08729-9Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1619-0181
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0761
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 406
Additional Information: Originally Published in French as "La microstructure des aciers et des fontes", 2003
Topics: Metallic Materials, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer