In the second edition of this best-selling book, new information and references are integrated into chapters. Emphasis remains on processing, alloying, microstructure, deformation, fracture and properties of major steel types ranging from low-carbon sheet steels, pearlitic rail and wire steels, to quench and tempered medium- and high-carbon martensitic steels. Microstructural aspects of steelmaking, hardenability, tempering, surface hardening, and embrittlement phenomena are updated, and chapters on stainless and tool steels remain in the second edition. The work is intended to be tutorial and is an essential state-of-the-art reference for anyone that makes, uses, studies and designs with steel.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction—Purpose of Text, Microstructure and Analysis, Steel Definitions, and Specifications
Chapter 2: History and Primary Steel Processing
Chapter 3: Phases and Structures
Chapter 4: Pearlite, Ferrite, and Cementite
Chapter 5: Martensite
Chapter 6: Bainite
Chapter 7: Ferritic Microstructures
Chapter 8: Austenite in Steel
Chapter 9: Primary Processing Effects on Steel Microstructure and Properties
Chapter 10: Isothermal and Continuous Cooling Transformation Diagrams
Chapter 11: Deformation, Strengthening, and Fracture of Ferritic Microstructures
Chapter 12: Low-Carbon Steels
Chapter 13: Normalizing, Annealing, and Spheroidizing Treatments; Ferrite/Pearlite and Spherical Carbides
Chapter 14: Non-Martensitic Strengthening of Medium-Carbon Steels—Microalloying and Bainitic Strengthening
Chapter 15: High-Carbon Steels—Fully Pearlitic Microstructures and Wire and Rail Applications
Chapter 16: Hardness and Hardenability
Chapter 17: Tempering of Steel
Chapter 18: Deformation, Mechanical Properties, and Fracture of Quenched and Tempered Carbon Steels
Chapter 19: Low Toughness and Embrittlement Phenomena in Steels
Chapter 20: Residual Stresses, Distortion, and Heat Treatment
Chapter 21: Surface Hardening
Chapter 22: Surface Modification
Chapter 23: Stainless Steels
Chapter 24: Tool Steels
Appendix: Hardness Conversions
About the Author
George Krauss, FASM, is a University Emeritus Professor at the Colorado School of Mines and a metallurgical consultant specializing in steel microstructural systems. He is a Past President of ASM International (1996-1997) and the recipient of many awards from ASM and other international societies.