Light alloys : metallurgy of the light metals /

Light Alloys: From Traditional Alloys to Nanocrystals, Fifth Edition, covers the materials science, properties, manufacturing processes, and applications of key engineering metals in a single accessible volume. As use of these metals is now more widespread than ever, with routine use in motor vehicl...

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Main Authors: Polmear, I. J.
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: StJohn, David; Nie, Jian-Feng; Qian, Ma
Published: Butterworth-Heinemann,
Publisher Address: Oxford :
Publication Dates: [2017]
©2017
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Fifth edition.
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080994314
Summary: Light Alloys: From Traditional Alloys to Nanocrystals, Fifth Edition, covers the materials science, properties, manufacturing processes, and applications of key engineering metals in a single accessible volume. As use of these metals is now more widespread than ever, with routine use in motor vehicles and aircraft, this book includes materials characteristics and applications, heat treatment properties, fabrication, microstructure/property relationships, new applications, and processes. Provides a definitive, single volume overview on the light alloysPresents new material on the processing, characteristics, and applications of these essential metalsCovers the latest applications and processes in the auto and aero industries.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080994307
008099430X
0080994318
9780080994314
Index Number: TN773
CLC: TF82-53
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.The light metals -- 1.1.General introduction -- 1.2.Production of aluminium -- 1.3.Production of magnesium -- 1.4.Production of titanium -- Further reading -- 2.Physical metallurgy of aluminium alloys -- 2.1.Work hardening and annealing -- 2.2.Principles of age hardening -- 2.3.Ageing processes -- 2.4.Corrosion -- 2.5.Mechanical behaviour -- Further reading -- 3.Casting of light alloys -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Solidification of light alloys -- 3.3.Grain refinement -- 3.4.Castability -- 3.5.Casting processes -- 3.6.New casting processes -- 3.7.Joining -- Further reading -- 4.Wrought aluminium alloys -- 4.1.Production of wrought alloys -- 4.2.Designation of alloys and tempers -- 4.3.Non-heat-treatable alloys -- 4.4.Heat-treatable alloys -- 4.5.Joining -- 4.6.Special products -- Further reading -- 5.Cast aluminium alloys -- 5.1.Designation, temper, and characteristics of cast aluminium alloys
Note continued: 8.6.Mechanical alloying -- 8.7.Physical vapor deposition -- 8.8.Nanophase alloys -- 8.9.Titanium aluminides -- 8.10.Additive manufacturing or 3D printing -- Further reading.