Metallographer's Guide. Practices and Procedures for Irons and Steels
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Author(s): B. Bamfitt and A. Benscoter
Publisher: IHS American Technical Publishers
ISBN: 0871707489
Format: hardback
354pp
Price: £163.00
Review Date: 30 September 2002
Review: This book provides metallographers with a guide for laboratory metallography. It begins with the basic information needed to understand the various types of steels and cast irons that are available commercially. The authors then go on to show the tools that are available beyond the typical metallography laboratory and describe how a metallurgical microscope (which, as metals are opaque, needs a source of reflected light) produces micrographs. Typical well-tried procedures for preparing specimens are described in detail and worked through step-by-step. An ‘Atlas of microstructures’ gives an index of the steels and cast iron described in the book.