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Superplastic Forming of Advanced Metallic Materials: Methods and Applications

Superplastic forming of advanced metallic materials summarises key recent research on this important process.

The higher ductility of superplastic metals makes it possible to form large and complex components in a single operation without joints or rivets.

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Heat Treater's Guide: Practices and Procedures for Irons and Steels, 2nd Edition

This edition is a complete revision and contains a great deal of new subject matter including information on ferrous powder metallurgy, cast irons, ultra high strength steels, furnace atmospheres, quenching processes, SPC and computer technology. Data on over 135 additional irons and steels have been added to the previously-covered 280 alloys.

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Microwaves and Metals

This is the first book to bring together the fundamentals of microwaves, microwave heating, interaction of microwaves with metals, and its application to other materials. The authors have combined numerous research results from a wide range of sources alongside their own work in the field. Also included are overviews of microwave heating of other non-metal materials and the equipment used for microwave-assisted metallurgy. With microwave techniques poised for widespread adoption, Microwaves and Metals is an essential text for all metallurgists and materials engineers.

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Practical Nitriding and Ferritic Nitrocarburizing

Nitriding and ferritic nitrocarburizing offer unique advantages compared to other surface hardening heat treatments. This book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding these processes, selecting the appropriate process and process parameters, controlling the process, evaluating results, and troubleshooting.

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Steels: Processing, Structure, and Performance

Steels: Processing, Structure, and Performance is a comprehensive guide to the broad, dynamic physical metallurgy of steels. The volume is an extensively revised and updated edition of the classic 1990 book Steels: Heat Treatment and Processing Principles. Eleven new chapters expand the coverage in the previous edition, and other chapters have been reorganized and updated. This volume is an essential reference for anyone who makes, uses, studies, or designs with steel.

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High Temperature Coatings

High Temperature Coatings demonstrates how to counteract the thermal effects of the rapid corrosion and degradation of exposed materials and equipment that can occur under high operating temperatures. This is the first true practical guide on the use of thermally-protective coatings for high-temperature applications, including the latest developments in materials used for protective coatings. It covers the make-up and behavior of such materials under thermal stress and the methods used for applying them to specific types of substrates, as well as invaluable advice on inspection and repair of existing thermal coatings.

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ASM Handbook Volume 04: Heat Treating

You'll find all heat treating topics covered in this one essential volume. Contents include: Heat Treating of Steel - quenching, tempering and annealing, continuous annealing, quantitative methods to predict hardenability.

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Failure Analysis of Heat Treated Steel Components

This thorough reference work discusses various causes of failure with integrated coverage of process metallurgy of steels by forging, casting, welding, and various heat treatment processes. The breadth of coverage and the numerous examples provide an invaluable resource for the designer, engineer, metallurgist, mechanical and materials engineers, quality control technicians, and heat treaters.

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Practical Heat Treating: Second Edition

What is heat treatment? This book describes heat treating technology in clear, concise, and nontheoretical language. It is an excellent introduction and guide for design and manufacturing engineers, technicians, students, and others who need to understand why heat treatment is specified and how different processes are used to obtain desired properties.

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Handbook of Residual Stress and Deformation of Steel

Distortion, cracking, and residual stresses are among the most important concerns for heat treaters, manufacturing engineers, and design engineers. This work includes practical information and data to help minimize and control the effects of residual stresses and distortion. Topics covered include recommended heat treating practices, methods for maintaining temperature uniformity during heating, tips for preventing oxide formation, and techniques for measuring residual stresses, to name but a few.

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Heat Treater's Guide: Practices and Procedures for Nonferrous Alloys

The first book of its kind lets you have quick access to authoritative, how-to heat treating information for the most widely-used nonferrous alloys. Provides quick access to recommended heat treating information for hundreds of nonferrous alloys. Additional information on compositions, trade names, common names, specifications, available product forms, typical applications, and properties are included when available.

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Fracture and Fatigue of Welded Joints and Structures

The failure of any welded joint is at best inconvenient and at worst can lead to catastrophic accidents. Fracture and fatigue of welded joints and structures analyses the processes and causes of fracture and fatigue, focusing on how the failure of welded joints and structures can be predicted and minimised in the design process.

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