Light Alloys. From Traditional Alloys to Nanocrystals
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Author(s): I. Polmear
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750663715
Format: hardback
421pp
Price: £49.99
Review Date: 10 February 2006
Review: This undergraduate textbook covers the essential features of the metallurgy of light alloys: magnesium, titanium and beryllium alloys. There are chapters on: light metals, physical metallurgy of aluminium alloys, wrought aluminium alloys, cast aluminium alloys, magnesium alloys, titanium alloys and novel materials and processing methods. This updated edition has been expanded by 20%, with new articles, figures and tables. New topics include: strip and slab casting; creep forming; joining technologies such as friction stir and laser welding; metallic foams; quasicrystals; and the production of nanosphase materials.