Light Alloys (eBook)

From Traditional Alloys to Nanocrystals

Ian Polmear (Autor)

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2005 | 4. Auflage
416 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-049610-8 (ISBN)

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The definitive overview of the science and metallurgy of aluminum, magnesium, titanium and beryllium alloys, this is the only book available covering the background materials science, properties, manufacturing processes and applications of these key engineering metals in a single accessible volume. Use of these metals is now more widespread than ever, and they are routinely found in motor vehicles and aircraft. New material includes materials characteristics and applications; heat treatment properties; fabrication; microstructure/property relationships; new applications and processes.
*The definitive single volume overview
*New material on processing, characteristics and applications of these essential metals
*Covers the latest applications and processes in the auto and aero industries

After a career in industry that included serving as Principal Research Scientist and Leader of the Aircraft Materials Group at Australia's Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Dr. Polmear moved to academia where he became Chairman of the Department of Materials Science at Monash University as well as a founding member of the Department of Materials Engineering and later Deputy Vice-Chancellor. His research interests - which included precipitation hardening in aluminium alloys, development of high strength alloys for aircraft, metal fatigue and weldable light alloys - led to collaborations with laboratories and industries in Australia, Britain, Switzerland, USA and Germany. He published the first edition of Light Alloys in 1981. Dr. Polmear is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Preface to the first edition 8
Preface to the second edition 10
Preface to the third edition 12
Preface to the fourth edition 14
Chapter 1. The light metals 16
1.1 General introduction 16
1.2 Production of aluminium 30
1.3 Production of magnesium 36
1.4 Production of titanium 39
Further reading 42
Chapter 2. Physical metallurgy of aluminium alloys 44
2.1 Work hardening and annealing 47
2.2 Principles of age hardening 58
2.3 Ageing processes 76
2.4 Corrosion 85
2.5 Mechanical behaviour 92
Further Reading 110
Chapter 3. Wrought aluminium alloys 112
3.1 Production of wrought alloys 112
3.2 Designation of alloys and tempers 130
3.3 Non-heat-treatable alloys 143
3.4 Heat-treatable alloys 146
3.5 Joining 175
3.6 Special products 185
Further Reading 218
Chapter 4. Cast aluminium alloys 220
4.1 Designation, temper and characteristics of cast aluminium alloys 222
4.2 Alloys based on the aluminium–silicon system 231
4.3 Alloys based on the aluminium–copper system 241
4.4 Aluminium–magnesium alloys 242
4.5 Aluminium–zinc–magnesium alloys 242
4.6 New casting processes 243
4.7 Joining 249
Further reading 250
Chapter 5. Magnesium alloys 252
5.1 Introduction to alloying behaviour 252
5.2 Melting and casting 265
5.3 Alloy designations and tempers 273
5.4 Zirconium-free casting alloys 274
5.5 Zirconium-containing casting alloys 288
5.6 Wrought magnesium alloys 297
5.7 Electrochemical aspects 303
5.8 Fabrication of components 306
5.9 Trends in applications of magnesium alloys 307
Further reading 311
Chapter 6. Titanium alloys 314
6.1 Introduction 314
6.2 a-alloys 320
6.3 a /b alloys 332
6.4 b-alloys 347
6.5 Fabrication 350
6.6 Titanium alloy castings 362
6.7 Engineering performance 363
6.8 Applications of titanium alloys 369
Further reading 380
Chapter 7. Novel materials and processing methods 382
7.1 Composites 382
7.2 Metallic Foams 396
7.3 Rapid solidification processing 399
7.4 Quasicrystals 407
7.5 Amorphous alloys 408
7.6 Mechanical alloying 412
7.7 Physical vapour deposition 414
7.8 Nanophase alloys 415
7.9 Titanium aluminides 419
Further reading 426
Appendix 428
Index 430

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• ISBN-10: 0-08-049610-5 / 0080496105
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-049610-8 / 9780080496108