Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Purpose of text, microstructure and analysis, steel definitions, and specifications -- History and primary steel processing -- Phases and structures -- Pearlite, ferrite, and cementite -- Martensite -- Bainite -- Ferritic microstructures -- Austenite in steel -- Primary processing effects on steel microstructure and properties -- Isothermal and continuous cooling transformation diagrams -- Deformation, strengthening, and fracture of ferritic microstructures -- Low-carbon steels -- Normalizing, annealing, and spheroidizing treatments; ferrite/pearlite and spherical carbides -- Non-martensitic strengthening of medium-carbon steels-microalloying and bainitic strengthening -- High-carbon steels-fully pearlitic microstructures and wire and rail applications -- Hardness and hardenability -- Tempering of steel -- Deformation, mechanical properties, and fracture of quenched and tempered carbon steels -- Low toughness and embrittlement phenomena in steels -- Residual stresses, distortion, and heat treatment -- Surface hardening -- Surface modification -- Stainless steels -- Tool steels -- Appendix: Hardness conversions.

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