Heat treater's guide : practices and procedures for irons and steels

This edition is a complete revision and contains a great deal of new subject matter including information on ferrous powder metallurgy, cast irons, ultra high strength steels, furnace atmospheres, quenching processes, SPC and computer technology. Data on over 135 additional irons and steels have been added to the previously-covered 280 alloys. Each data sheet gives the chemical composition of the alloy, a listing of similar U.S. and foreign alloys, its characteristics, and the recommended heat treating procedure. Most of the compilation goes much further and offers a wide variety of additional heat treating data such as representative micrographs, isothermal transformation diagrams, cooling transformation diagrams, tempering curves and data on dimensional change. Aiding you are over 800 figures, 450 micrographs, a glossary of selected heat treating terms and general engineering data. Introduction......Page 1 Heat Treating Processes......Page 2 Causes of Distortion and Cracking during Quenching......Page 3 Stress Relief Heat Treating of Steel......Page 5 Furnace Atmospheres......Page 6 Cold and Cryogenic Treatment of Steel......Page 12 Representative Applications of Heat Treating Furnaces......Page 13 Statistical Process Control of Heat Treating Operations......Page 16 How a Commercial Heat Treater Uses SPC and the Computer......Page 20 Practical Applications of the Computer in Heat Treating......Page 23 The Normalizing Process......Page 27 Annealing of Steel......Page 29 Surface Hardening Treatments......Page 36 Induction Hardening......Page 37 Flame Hardening......Page 42 Gas Carburizing......Page 46 Pack Carburizing......Page 50 Liquid Carburizing and Cyaniding......Page 51 Vacuum Carburizing......Page 54 Plasma (lon) Carburizing......Page 55 Gas Nitriding......Page 60 Liquid Nitriding......Page 64 Plasma (Ion) Nitriding......Page 67 Gaseous and Plasma Nitrocarburizing......Page 69 Fluidized Bed Hardening......Page 71 Boride (Boronizing) Process......Page 74 Electron Beam Hardening......Page 76 Air Quenching Process......Page 77 Water Quenching Process......Page 78 Oil Quenching Process......Page 79 Polymer Quenchants......Page 81 Molten Salt Quenching Process......Page 83 Brine Quenching Process......Page 84 Caustic Quenching Process......Page 85 Gas Quenching Process......Page 86 Vacuum Quenching......Page 88 Self-Quenching Processes......Page 89 Fluidized Bed Quenching......Page 91 Ultrasonic Quenching......Page 92 Spray Quenching Process......Page 93 Quenching in an Electric or Magnetic Field......Page 94 Quenching Flame and Induction Hardened Parts......Page 95 Conventional Processes......Page 96 Martempering of Steel......Page 101 Martempering of Steel......Page 106 Carbon & Alloy Steels Introduction......Page 111 Introduction......Page 121 Nonresulfurized (1000 Series)......Page 139 Resulfurized Carbon Steels [1100 Series)......Page 251 Rephosphorized and Resulfurized Carbon Steels (1200 Series)......Page 271 High Manganese Carbon Steels (1500 Series)......Page 276 Alloy Steels(1300 through 9700 Series)......Page 326 Tool Steels......Page 611 Water-Hardening Tool Steels......Page 614 Shock-Resisting Tool Steels(S Series)......Page 623 Oil-Hardening Cold Work Tool Steels(0 Series)......Page 637 Medium-Alloy, Air-HardeningCold Work Tool Steels (A Series)......Page 651 High-Carbon, High-ChromiumCold Work Tool Steels (D Series)......Page 673 Low-Alloy Special-PurposeTool Steels (L Series)......Page 690 Mold Steels (P Series)......Page 698 Hot Work Tool Steels(H Series)......Page 714 l’bngsten High-Speed Tool Steels(T Series)......Page 757 Molybdenum High-Speed Tool Steels(M Series)......Page 781 Ultrahigh-Strength Steels......Page 826 Austenitic Stainless Steels......Page 844 Ferritic Stainless Steels......Page 913 Martensitic Stainless Steels......Page 926 Cast Stainless Steels......Page 958 PH Stainless Steels......Page 980 Heat Treating Ductile Iron......Page 1011 Heat Treating Malleable Irons......Page 1022 Heat Treating P/M Tool Steels......Page 1031 Heat Treating P/M Stainless Steel......Page 1035 Heat Treating of P/M Steel Parts......Page 1039 The first book of its kind lets you have quick access to authoritative, how-to heat treating information for the most widely-used nonferrous alloys. Provides quick access to recommended heat treating information for hundreds of nonferrous alloys. The material is contained in more than 500 datasheet articles, each devoted exclusively to one particular alloy. The datasheets are arranged by alloy groups: nickel, aluminium, copper, magnesium, titanium, zinc and superalloys.