Cast Irons: Gray ductile, malleable and alloy; classifications and basic metallurgy mechanical/physical properties and applications fracture toughness and fatigue properties. Carbon and Low-Alloy Steels Thermomechanical processing steel classifications, including extensive tabular cross-references of SAE-AISI steels to international designations various product forms and steel types. Hardenability of Carbon and Low-Alloy Steels: Fundamentals hardenability calculations more than 80 of the most-used hardenability curves, in both English and metric. Fabrication Characteristics: Sheet formability bulk formability machinability weldability of steels, including advances in bar and plate rolling and the forging of microalloyed steels. Service Characteristics: High-temperature problems associated with chromium-molybdenum steels neutron irradiation low-temperature properties, fatigue and notch toughness embrittlement of steels by thermal and environmental degradation (more than 218 figures illustrate deleterious effects).
Specialty Steels and Heat-Resistant Alloys: Wrought, cast and powder metallurgy materials for specialty and/or high-perfo applications tool steels, managing steels, P/M steels and austenitic manganese steels stainless steels and superalloys, including duplex stainless steels dispersion-strengthened P/M superalloys, investment cast superalloys directionally-solidified and single-crystal superalloys. Special Engineering Topics: Availability and supply of strategic materials, such as chromium and cobalt, used in stainless steel and superalloy production current efforts to recycle highly-alloyed materials.
