TY - BOOK AU - Krauss,George TI - Steels: processing, structure, and performance SN - 162708083X AV - TA472 .K68 2015 U1 - 620.17 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Materials Park, Ohio PB - ASM International KW - Steel KW - fast N1 - 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 ER -