Contents include: Introduction to Stainless Steels - metallurgy and properties of wrought and cast stainless steels, powder metallurgy, melting, refining and recycling Corrosion Behaviour - atmospheric and aqueous corrosion, stress-corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement, high-temperature corrosion, corrosion of cast stainless, corrosion of weldments Fabrication and Finishing - Foundry practice, forming, forging and extrusion, PM processing, heat treating, machining, welding, brazing and soldering, adhesive bonding, surface engineering Metallography, Microstructures and Phase Diagrams - metallographic practices and microstructures of wrought stainless metallography and microstructures of cast stainless phase diagrams Properties of Stainless Steels - physical properties, low temperature properties, elevated-temperature properties, tribological properties. An index is also included.
