The best single-volume reference on the metallurgy, selection, processing, performance, and evaluation of stainless steels, incorporating essential information culled from across the ASM Handbook series. Includes additional data and reference information carefully selected and adapted from other authoritative ASM sources.

Introduction to Stainless Steels
Metallurgy and properties of wrought and cast stainless steels, powder metallurgy, cladding and weld overlays, melting, refining and recycling

Corrosion Behavior
Atmospheric and aqueous corrosion, stress-corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement, high-temperature corrosion, corrosion of cast stainless, corrosion of weldments

Fabrication and Finishing
Forming, forging and extrusion, heat treating, machining, welding, brazing, soldering, and 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.