Specialty Steels and Hard Materials

Specialty Steels and Hard Materials covers the proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Developments in Specialty Steels and Hard Materials (Materials Development '82). The main focus of the materials in the selection is on the microstructural detail, alloy design, processing technology, applications, and economic viability. The first part of the title presents the invited papers in the conference; this part includes topics such as toughness in high speed steels and hard metals; the use of vanadium in low alloy structural steels; and design of strong, ductile, duplex low alloy steels. The second part of the text covers topics about high strength low alloy steels, stainless steels, and rapid solidification processing. The last part of selection deals with tungsten carbide-cobalt hard metals, non-oxide ceramics, and sintered polycrystalline ultra-hard materials. The book will be of great interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of materials engineering and metallurgy.

Invited Papers Rapid Solidification Processing and the Control of Structure/Property Relationships Microstructural Design in Low Alloy Steels Maraging Steels - Structure, Properties and Applications Design of Strong, Ductile, Duplex Low Alloy Steels A Review of Worldwide Developments in Stainless Steels Recent Developments on the Role of Molybdenum in Irons and Steels The Use of Vanadium in Low Alloy Structural Steels Toughness in High Speed Steels and Hard Metals Microstructure and Deformation Aspects of Some Specialty Steels and Hard Metals Microstructural Design and Control of Sintered Hard Materials Some Reflections on the Competition between Hard Materials in Industrial Applications The Current Status of Diamond and Cubic Boron Nitride Composites Development and Performance of CVD-Coatings on Cutting ToolsContributed PapersSpecialty Steels Copper-Boron Low Alloy High Strength Steels Microalloyed Hot Rolled Bars for Hot Forging Applications Developmental 2.25 Cr-1 Mo Steels for Coal Conversion Vessel Rapid Solidification of Steels: Model and Commercial Alloys Strain Hardening and Strain Aging in Fe-Al-Mn Alloys An Investigation into the Superhardening Effect in Molybdenum-Free Steel with Specific Reference to Alloy Substitution The Influence of Rare Earth Elements on the Temper Embrittlement Behavior and Mechanical Properties of a Low Alloy Steel The Determination of Soluble and Insoluble Boron in Steel by Emission Spectrometry Using an Inductively Coupled Plasma and a Scanning Monochromator Copper-Containing Steels for Severe Service Rails On the Fracture and Wear Characteristics of Chromium-Molybdenum Bainitic Steel Rolling and Alloying as Influencing Factors on Pipe Steel Properties The Role of Molybdenum as an Alloy Element in Adhesive Wear Resistance The Development of Wear Resistant Alloys for the South African Gold Mining Industry Metallurgy of a 12% Chromium Steel Alloying Effects of Reactive Elements in Ferritic Stainless Steels The Influence of Metallurgical Aspects on the Pitting Corrosion Behavior of High Alloy Stainless Steels Properties and Applications of a Highly Alloyed Ferritic Stainless Steel The Effect of Replacing Molybdenum with Vanadium on the Corrosion Resistant Properties of Stainless Steels The Structure of Rapidly Solidified Nickel-Base AlloysHard Materials Microstructural Basis of Strength and Toughness in Hard Metals Magnetic Properties of the Cobalt Matrix in WC-Co Compacts The Palmqvist Test and Its Applications in WC-Co Alloys The Inter-Relation of Microstructure, Toughness and Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior in WC-Co Hardmetals The Constitution as the Basis for Recent and Future Developments of Wear Resistant Materials Wear Properties of Rapidly Solidified Surfaces of a Pseudo-Binary Fe-TiC Alloy New Titanium Carbide Grades for Metal Cutting Thermodynamic Calculations and the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Hard Materials The Adhesion of Hard and Wear Resistant Coatings Erosion Behavior of CVD TiB2 Coatings on TiB2-Based Ceramic Substrates in High-Velocity Coal-Oil Slurries Erosion of Sintered WC-Co Alloys Microstructure and Creep Behavior at Elevated Temperature of Unidirectionally Solidified Eutectic Nickel-Base Superalloys Non-Oxide Ceramics - A New Class of Engineering Materials The Growth of Twins and Twin Lamellae in Synthetic Diamond Crystals Diamond Polishing - Diamond's Affinity for Scaife Materials in the Polishing Process of Diamond TEM Observation of Microstructures of Sintered Diamond Compacts Applications of Hard Metal in the Zambian Mining IndustryAuthor IndexSubject Index