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Steels: Processing, Structure, And
Performance
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| by G. Krauss, 612pp, 2005,
ISBN: 0871708175 |
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Steels:
Processing, Structure, and Performance
is a comprehensive guide to the broad, dynamic
physical metallurgy of steels. The volume is an
extensively revised and updated edition of the classic
1990 book Steels: Heat Treatment and Processing
Principles. Eleven new chapters expand the
coverage in the previous edition, and other chapters
have been reorganized and updated. This volume is an
essential reference for anyone who makes, uses,
studies, or designs with steel. The interrelationships
between chemistry, processing, structure, and
performance--the elements of physical metallurgy--are
integrated for all the types of steel discussed. The
evolution, characterization, and performance of steel
microstructures are described, with increased emphasis
on deformation and fracture. Heat treatment remains a
vital aspect of the manufacture of steel products, and
the coverage of thermal processing and its effect on
steels is expanded in this edition. Dramatic changes
in steel manufacture have occurred in the 15 years
since the publication of the 1990 edition. Low-carbon
sheet steels have experienced the most dynamic
changes: thermal processing of sheet steels on a
massive continuous scale has produced new grades with
only subtle changes in chemistry. Low carbon sheet
steels, together with strengthening mechanisms,
developments in microalloyed forging steels, steels
with bainitic and a variety of ferritic
microstructures, quench and tempered steel
performance, high-carbon steels for rail and
ultra-high strength wire, and the causes of low
toughness and embrittlement are all discussed in new
chapters. Brief coverage is provided on the history of
steel, including the time frame for important
developments. A link to steelmaking and solidification
is made in the chapter on the effects of primary
processing on steel microstructure. The text is meant
to be informative, readable, up-to-date, and self
contained. Principles, concepts, and understanding of
microstructural evolution and performance, within the
framework of processing and properties, are
illustrated, by plots of data, micrographs and
schematic diagrams. A special effort has been made to
include references to the most pertinent books,
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Dr. George Krauss
is currently University Emeritus Professor at the Colorado
School of Mines and a metallurgical consultant specializing
in steel microstructural systems. He served at Lehigh
University as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and
Professor of Metallurgy and Materials Science from 1963 to
1975, and in 1975, joined the faculty of the Colorado School
of Mines as the AMAX Foundation Professor in Physical
Metallurgy. He was the John Henry Moore Professor of
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the time of his
retirement from the Colorado School of Mines in 1997. In
1984, Dr. Krauss was a principal in the establishment of the
Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center, a
National Science Foundation Industry-University cooperative
research center at the Colorado School of Mines, and served
as its first Director until 1993. In addition to the three
editions of the present volume, he coauthored the book Tool
Steels, Fifth Edition, ASM International, 1998, and edited
or co-edited conference volumes on tempering of steel,
carburizing, zinc-based coatings on steel, and microalloyed
forging steels. He has published over 300 papers and
lectured widely in technical conferences, universities,
corporations and ASM International chapters, including a
number of keynote, invited and honorary lectures. He
presented the Edward DeMille Campbell Memorial Lecture of
ASM International in 2000 and the Howe Memorial Lecture of
the Iron and Steel Society in 2003. Dr. Krauss has served as
the President of the International Federation of Heat
Treatment and Surface Engineering (IFHTSE), 1989-91, and as
President of ASM International, 1996-97. He is Fellow of ASM
International, TMS, and IFHTSE. He has been awarded the
Adolf Martens Medal of the German Society for Heat Treatment
and Materials, the Charles S. Barrett Silver Medal of the
Rocky Mountain Chapter of ASM, the George Brown Gold Medal
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