Book recommendation for non-metallurgist 1

[FArias]

Hello

I am a mechanical engineer and would like to learn some more about the materials I work with, high-temperature steels and some aluminium and titan alloys with different heat treatments. Everything from phase diagrams to the modification of properties through the heat treat. would be welcome.

Could you recommend any books written for non-material-science-experts?

Thanks in advance

 

[CoryPad]

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Regards,

Cory

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[EdStainless]

ASM publishes a series of specialty handbooks. They are nice and condensed. They have them for a lot of subjects.

http://www.asminternational.org/Tem...=Ecommerce/ProductDisplay.cfm&ProductID=11689

This is the whole set, just get the ones that interest you.

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[Rich2001]

A couple free bokks that might be of help

Department of Energy Fundamental Handbooks on Material Science DOE-HDBK 1017 volumes 1 & 2

http://tis.eh.doe.gov/techstds/standard/hdbk1017/h1017v1.pdf

http://tis.eh.doe.gov/techstds/standard/hdbk1017/h1017v2.pdf

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[swall]

"Engineer to Win" by the late Carroll Smith has a pretty good section on metallurgy basics and applications. Avilable from Motorbooks.com.

 

[CoryPad]

I disagree with swall's recommendation. Mr. Smith has a poor grasp of many engineering fundamentals, including materials science. His descriptions are likely to confuse non-experts, rather than educate them.

Regards,

Cory

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[swall]

It all depends on how deep into materials engineering you want to go. Carroll Smith provides sort of a general guide for the neophyte. For what his book provides, I think it is pretty good, once you get past Carroll being full of himself. If you know nothing about materials science, it is a starting point.

 

[EngJW]

Meant to reply earlier but just remembered to look at my bookshelf at home. My college metallurgy book was Clark & Varney. It is a very readable text, well organized by basic materials (ferrous, non-ferrous, corosion resistant, high temp), types of alloys, and heat treatments, and does not require a high level of chemistry and math knowledge. The books in those days did not use the cutesy-pie graphics and side bars that modern textbooks use, so you could read through a chapter and not lose your place every other paragraph.

The first class in metalllurgy was taught by a chemistry prof and the textbook concentrated on the atomic level of the materials. The class average was about 30 on tests. I dropped it and changed to the night course where they used Clark & Varney and the prof came from the steel industry, so we concentrated on the engineering aspects of materials.

 

[FArias]

Thanks all for your answers!

Regards,
Fernando

 

[rorschach]

ASM offers a book of the same name as thier training course, "Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist". Not a bad read for the truly uninitiated.