ASM Specialty Handbook Stainless Steels

Contents Include: introduction to Stainless Steels - Metallurgy and properties of wrought and cast stainless steels, powder metallurgy, melting, refining and recycling. Corrosion Behaviour - Atmospheric and aqueous corrosion, stress-corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement, high-temperature corrosion, corrosion of cast stainless, corrosion of weldmets. Fabrication and Finishing - Foundry practice, forming, forging and extrusion, PM processing, heat treating, machining, welding, brazing and soldering, adhesive bonding, surface engineering. Metallography, Microstructures and Phase Diagrams - Metallographic practices and microstructures of wrought stainless metallography and microstructures of cast stainless phase diagrams. Properties of Stainless Steels - Physical properties, low temperature properties, elevated-temperature properties, tribological properties. Also includes index.