This Book Should Be Of Interest To Practising Engineers In Metallurgy And Materials Science, Mechanical Engineers, Chemical Engineers Involved With Corrosion And Inorganic Chemistry, Industry Engineers In The Steel And Metal Alloy Business. Croscopy has been in the development of titanium alloys. This book is a collection of articles written to provide the student, technician, engineer, or researcher with de Quantitative metallography, or stereology, has grown tailed information on the nature and application of a num in importance substantially in the past three decades. De ber of important metallographic techniques and subjects Hoff has prepared a review of basic measurement proce critical to physical metallurgy studies, materials develop dures and has shown how they are applied to generate ment, and failure analyses. Consequently, this text should meaningful data. Underwood's paper provides a compre hensive, up-to-date review of procedures for quantifying be a valuable extension to basic text books on light and electron microscopy because it emphasizes the application fracture features. Application of these techniques should produce further advances in our ability to control frac of these procedures as well as describes the basic method ology of their use. tures. The first five chapters describe important advanced Blau has written a review of microindentation hardness metallographic techniques for revealing the microstruc testing and shows that much more can be done with this technique than merely determining the hardness of mate ture of materials, usually selectively. For example, Vander Voort's chapter reviews the more traditional selective rials. etching methods, whereas the other four are devoted to Two chapters deal with electron metallographic tech more specialized techniques. Stansbury reviews the tech niques Front Matter....Pages i-ix Phase Identification by Selective Etching....Pages 1-19 Potentiostatic Etching....Pages 21-39 Applications of the Interference Layer Method....Pages 41-51 Magnetic Etching....Pages 53-61 The Gas Contrasting Method....Pages 63-70 Techniques for Stainless Steel Microscopy....Pages 71-88 Problem Solving Using Quantitative Stereology....Pages 89-99 Quantitative Fractography....Pages 101-122 Methods and Applications of Microindentation Hardness Testing....Pages 123-138 The SEM as a Metallographic Tool....Pages 139-170 Metallography in the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope....Pages 171-196 Metallography and Welding Process Control....Pages 197-210 Microscopy and the Development of Free-Machining Steels....Pages 211-236 Microscopy and Titanium Alloy Development....Pages 237-249 Use of Microscopy in Failure Analysis....Pages 251-259 Microscopy and the Study of Wear....Pages 261-279 Microscopy and the Study of Corrosion....Pages 281-296 Back Matter....Pages 297-301
