Fundamentals of Metallurgy will be an invaluable reference for steelmakers and manufacturers requiring high-performance steels in such areas as automotive and aerospace engineering.

Features:

• Reviews the effects of processing on the properties of metals with a range of chapters on such phenomena as phase transformations, types of kinetic reaction, transport and interfacial phenomena
• Discusses the implications of this research for improving steelmaking and steel properties.

Contents

The behaviour of metals during high-temperature processing

• Reactions involving gases and solids
• Reactions involving liquid phases
• Casting processes
• Thermomechanical processes

Thermodynamic aspects of metals processing

• Basic concepts in thermodynamics
• Chemical equilibrium
• Unary and multicomponent equilibria
• Thermodynamics of solutions
• Thermodynamics of multicomponent dilute solutions
• Modelling of metallic systems
• Thermodynamics of ionic melts
• Basics of electrochemical thermodynamics

Phase diagrams, phase transformations, and the prediction of metal properties

• Phase diagrams and potential diagrams
• Ternary phase diagrams
• Solidification in ternary systems and four phase equilibria
• Examples of solidification behaviour from a phase diagram perspective

Measurement and estimation of physical properties of metals at high temperatures

• Factors affecting physical properties and their measurement
• Measurements and problems
• Fluid flow properties
• Properties related to heat transfer
• Properties related to mass transfer
• Estimating metal properties

Transport phenomena and metals properties

• Mass transfer
• Heat transfer
• Fluid flow

Interfacial phenomena, metals processing, and properties

• Fundamentals of the interface
• Interfacial properties of a metallurgical melts system
• Interfacial phenomena in relation to metallurgical processing

The kinetics of metallurgical reactions in metals processing

• Fundamentals of heterogeneous kinetics
• Solid-state reactions
• Gas-solid reactions
• Liquid-liquid reactions
• Solid-liquid reactions
• Gas-liquid reactions
• Comprehensive process modelling

Thermoanalytical methods in metals processing

• Thermogravimetry (TG)
• Differential thermal analysis (DTA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
• Evolved gas analysis (EGA) and detection (EGD)

Improving process design in steel-making

• Overview of process design
• Thermodynamics and mass balance
• Kinetics - mass transfer and heat transfer
• Optimization of interfacial reactions
• Micro modelling

Solidification and steel casting

• Solidification fundamentals
• The growth of solids
• The casting of steels

Analysing metal working processes

• Work hardening
• Rate effects
• Interaction with phase transformations
• Examples of material behaviour during processing

Understanding and improving powder metallurgical processes

• Production processes for powders
• Forming processes towards near-net shape

Improving steel-making and steel properties

• Developing processes and properties with reference to market, energy, and environment
• Optimization of processes to meet properties and productivity
• Economic optimisation
• Environmental optimisation

Index

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