Light Microscopy of Carbon Steels
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Author(s): L. E. Samuels
Publisher: ASME International
ISBN: 1 87170 655 5
Format: hardback
502pp
Price: £157.00
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: This is a revised and expanded edition of Optical Microscopy of Carbon Steels. Its aim is to illustrate and develop an understanding of the range of micro-structures that are formed in carbon steels by varying the carbon content and the thermal and mechanical treatments. This edition includes recent developments such as the introduction of continuous casting practices. The different segregation patterns obtained in continuous casting and batch casting are discernible in photomicrographs. Other developments in steel making practice have enabled the carbon content of the product to be reduced to a very low level, with strengthening achieved by the use of small amounts of other types of alloying elements. This has enabled the 'interstitial-free' or 'high-strength low-alloy' steels to be developed. There are chapters on: Phase transformations; Low-carbon irons and steels; Low-carbon structural steels; Steels in annealed and normalised conditions; Spheroidization and graphitisation; Austenitization; Transformation of austenite; Tempering of austenite; Tempering of martensite; Welding; and Surface oxidation, decarburisatoin, and carburisating.