Buy the new ASM Handbook Volume 4A which provides an excellent foundation on the modern methods of steel heat treating for new or experienced practitioners. Major topics include: the physical metallurgy of steel heat treatment, fundamentals and practical aspects of steel hardness and hardenability, quenching, annealing, tempering, austempering and martempering.

Coverage on heat treating in the ASM Handbook series is being expanded into several volumes, and ASM Handbook, Volume 4A, Steel Heat Treating Fundamentals and Processes is the first of multiple volumes on heat treating. Volume 4A introduces the basics of steel heat treating and provides in-depth coverage of the many steel heat treating processes. Coverage includes:

• Physical metallurgy of steel heat treatment
• Fundamentals of steel hardness and hardenability
• Practical aspects of hardenability as a key criterion in the selection of steel
• Hardenability calculations and the use of hardenability data
• Fundamentals and practical aspects of steel quenching
• Expanded coverage on quenching processes
• Updates and expansion on annealing, tempering, austempering and martempering
• New articles on cleaning, subcritical annealing, austenitizing, and quench partitioning of steel heat treatment
• Significant expansion on the fundamental and applied aspects of surface hardening by applied energy, carburizing, carbonitriding, nitriding, and diffusion coatings
   

Editors and authors have also added charts, examples, and practical reference data for application purposes to the 50 articles included in the volume.

ASM Handbook, Volume 4B: Steel Heat Treating Technologies, Volume 4C: Induction Heating and Heat Treatment, and Volume 4D: Heat Treating of Irons and Steels, expand the overall coverage of heat treating in the series.

 

Contents

INTRODUCTION TO STEEL HEAT TREATING
Introduction to Steel Heat Treatment
Hardness and Hardenability of Steels
Hardenability Calculation of Carbon and Low-Alloy Steels with Low or Medium Carbon
Calculation of Hardenability in High-Carbon Steels

STEEL QUENCHING FUNDAMENTALS AND PROCESSES
Quenching of Steel
Characterization of Heat Transfer during Quenching
Large Probes for Characterization of Industrial Quenching Processes
Quench Process Sensors
Intensive Quenching of Steel Parts
Inverse Hardening
Gas Quenching
Salt Quenching
Fluidized-Bed Quenching
Spray Quenching
Press Quenching
Wire Patenting

STEEL HEAT TREATMENT PROCESSES
Cleaning of Steel for Heat Treatment
Stress-Relief Heat Treating of Steel
Normalizing of Steel
Annealing of Steel
Subcritical Annealing and Normalizing
Austenitizing in Steels
Quenching and Partitioning Steel Heat Treatment
Tempering of Steels
Austempered Steel
Martempering of Steels
Cold and Cryogenic Treatment of Steel

CASE HARDENING OF STEELS
Introduction to Surface Hardening of Steels
Stop-Off Technologies for Heat Treatment
Methods of Measuring Case Depth in Steels

APPLIED-ENERGY CASE HARDENING OF STEELS
Flame Hardening of Steels
Induction Surface Hardening of Steels
Electron Beam Surface Hardening
Laser Surface Hardening

CARBURIZING AND CARBONITRIDING OF STEELS
Introduction to Carburizing and Carbonitriding
Evaluation of Carbon Control in Carburized Parts
Gas Carburizing
Pack Carburizing
Liquid Carburizing and Cyaniding of Steels
Low-Pressure Carburizing
Plasma Carburizing
Carbonitriding of Steels

NITRIDING AND NITROCARBURIZING OF STEELS
Fundamentals of Nitriding and Nitrocarburizing
Gas Nitriding and Gas Nitrocarburizing of Steels
Liquid Nitriding of Steels
Plasma (Ion) Nitriding and Nitrocarburizing of Steels

DIFFUSION COATINGS
Pack Cementation Processes
Boriding (Boronizing) of Metals
Thermoreactive Deposition/Diffusion Process for Surface Hardening of Steels
Supercarburizing