Steel metallurgy for the non-metallurgist.

9780871708588

Steel metallurgy for the non-metallurgist.

Verhoeven, John D.

ASM International

2007

220 pages

$85.00

Hardcover

TA684

Verhoeven (engineering emeritus, Iowa State U.) starts from simple concepts taught in many high school chemistry classes ad proceeds to the complexities of heat treatment of nearly all types of steel as well as cast iron. Working from his experience with practicing bladesmiths for a couple of decades, Verhoeven starts with the characteristics of pure iron, then moves to solutions and phase diagrams. He applies these concepts to his descriptions of steel and the iron-carbon phase diagram, the various microstructures of room-temperature steel, mechanical properties (including the tensile test, the hardness test, the notched impact test, fatigue failure and residual stresses), the low-alloy American Iron and Steel Institute steels, diffusion as a mechanism for atom migration, control of grain size, hardenability of steel, tempering, austenization, quenching, stainless steels, tool steels, solidification, cast irons, and surface hardening treatments of steels. Appendices include material on temperature measurement and stainless steels for knifemakers.

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