Steels : Processing, structure and performance / George Krauss.

Introduction: purpose of text, steel. Definitions and specifications - History and primary steel procesing - 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, strenggthening, and fracture of ferritic microstructures - Low carbon steels - Normalizing, annealing, and spheroidizing treatments; ferrite/pearlite microstructures in medium-carbon steels - Non-martensitic strengthening of medium-carbon steels: microalloying and bainitic strengthening - High-carbon steels: fully pearlitic microstructures and applications - Hardness and hardenability - Tempering of stell - Deformation, mecanical properties and fracture of quench and tempered carbon steels - Low toughness and embrittlement phenomena in steels - Residual stresses, distortion, and hear treatment - Surface hardening - Surface modification - Stainless steels - Tool steels - Glosary of selected terms - Hardness conversions - Temperature conversions