Modern physical metallurgy / R.E. Smallman
- Author:
- Smallman, R. E.
- Published:
- London ; Boston : Butterworths, 1985.
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Physical Description:
- 530 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- THE STRUCTURE OF ATOMS AND CRYSTALS: Metallic characteristics -- The atom -- The nomenclature of the Electronic states in an atom -- The Periodic Table -- Chemical behaviour and the metallic bond -- Arrangement of atoms in metals -- Electrons in metal crystals -- Metals and insulators -- Real crystals and imperfections -- The elements of crystallography -- The stereographic projection -- THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF METALS AND ALLOYS: Metallography -- X-ray and neutron diffraction -- Electron metallography -- Microanalysis -- Field ion microscopy -- Mechanical properties -- Physical properties -- PHASE DIAGRAMS AND SOLIDIFICATION: The determination of phase diagrams -- The equilibrium or phase diagram -- Constitutional undercooling -- Metal structures -- Zone refining -- Growth of single crystals -- Ternary equilibrium diagrams -- THERMODYNAMICS OF CRYSTALS: The effect of temperature on metal crystals -- The specific heat curve and transformations -- Heat content, entropy and free energy -- The statistical nature of entropy -- Free energy of transformation -- The variation of free energy with temperature, and polymorphism -- Thermodynamics of lattice defects -- The rate of reaction -- The mechanism of phase changes -- The equilibrium diagram -- Diffusion -- Anelasticity and internal friction -- THE STRUCTURE OF ALLOYS: Primary substitutional solid solutions -- The form of the liquidus and solidus curves -- The primary solid solubility boundary -- Interstitial solid solutions -- Intermediate phases -- Order-disorder phenomena -- The magnetic properties of metals and alloys -- The electronic structure of the transition metals -- Semiconductors -- Superconductivity --, DISLOCATIONS IN CRYSTALS: Elastic and plastic deformation -- Dislocations in close packed crystals -- Dislocations in hexagonal structures -- Dislocations in BCC lattices -- Dislocations in ordered structures -- OBSERVATION OF CRYSTAL DEFECTS: Crystal growth -- Direct observation of dislocations -- Arrangements of dislocations in crystals -- Origin of dislocations -- DEFORMATION OF METALS AND ALLOYS: Dislocation mobility -- Dislocation source operation -- Yielding and dislocation multiplication -- The yield point and related effects -- The interaction of solute atoms with dislocations -- Variation of yield stress with temperature -- Other types of solute atom-dislocation interaction -- The kinetics of strain ageing -- Influence of grain boundaries on the plastic properties of metals -- Mechanical twinning -- POINT DEFECTS IN CRYSTALS: The production of vacancies -- The effect of vacancies on the physical and mechanical properties -- The nucleation of point defect clusters -- Electron microscope observations of vacancy defects -- Annealing of clustered defects -- Point defect hardening -- Radiation growth and swelling -- Vacancy defects in alloys -- Radiation-induced segregation, diffusion and precipitation -- Radiation and ordered alloys -- WORK HARDENING AND ANNEALING: Work hardening -- Preferred orientation -- Texture hardening -- Macroscopic plasticity -- Annealing --, and PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS I- PRECIPITATION HARDENING TRANSFORMATION: Precipitation from supersaturated solid solution -- Changes in properties accompanying precipitation -- Fructural changes -- Some common precipitation systems -- Mechanisms of hardening -- Hardening in aluminium-copper alloys -- Vacancies and precipitation -- Duplex ageing -- Particle coarsening -- Spinodal decomposition -- Dispersion-hardened alloys -- Fibre strengthening -- Superalloys -- PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS II-THE EUTECTOID TRANSFORMATION: The Austenite-pearlite reaction -- The austenite-bainite transformation -- Tempering and heat treatment -- Thermo-mechanical treatments -- Commercial steels and cast iron -- CREEP AND FATIGUE: Creep -- Fatigue -- FRACTURE: Brittle fracture -- Hydrogen embrittlement -- Fracture toughness -- Intergranular fracture -- Ductile fracture -- Fracture at elevated temperatures -- Rupture -- Fracture mechanism maps -- Fatigue crack growth -- OXIDATION AND CORROSION: Thermodynamics of oxidation -- Kinetics of oxidation -- The structure of oxides -- Wagner's theory of oxidation -- Parameters affecting oxidation rates -- Oxidation resistance -- Intergranular voiding-stress v vacancy injection -- Breakaway oxidation -- Aqueous corrosion -- The electrochemical series -- Corrosion protection -- Corrosion failures.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0408710500
0408710519 (pbk. : £17.50) - Note:
- Includes index.
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