Authored by top researchers, this book discusses methodologies to quantify the properties and microstructures of aluminum, steel, and superalloys. It is a unique reference to advanced laboratory techniques in the context of characterization and property evaluation methodologies, enabling the evolution of stronger and more function-specific compositions. Topics include metallography, an atlas of microstructures, thermal analysis, x-ray diffraction, and residual stress measurement, transmission electron microscopy, electron backscattering diffraction spectroscopy, texture measurement, electron momentum spectroscopy, positron annihilation spectroscopy, and atomic probe tomography.
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This reference provides in-depth coverage of the latest production and processing technologies encountered in the aluminum alloy industry. It discusses current analytical methods for aluminum alloy characterization as well as extractive metallurgy, smelting, master alloy formation, recent surface modification techniques, and recycling. The Handbook of Aluminum, Volume 2 examines environmental pollution and toxicity in each stage of aluminum alloy production and metal processing, illustrates microstructure evolution modeling, and describes work hardening, recovery, recrystallization, and grain growth.
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The Handbook of Aluminum: Vol. 1: Physical Metallurgy and Processes covers all aspects of the physical metallurgy, analytical techniques, and processing of aluminium, including hardening, annealing, aging, property prediction, corrosion, residual stress and distortion, welding, casting, forging, molten metal processing, machining, rolling, and extrusion. It also features an extensive, chapter-length consideration of quenching. CHOICE magazine said this book is "…heartily welcomed as a precious thesaurus of information. …well written. …An indispensable acquisition for academic engineering libraries and industrial libraries. … Essential."
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