
Light Alloys
Metallurgy of the Light Metals
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Description
Key Features
- Provides a definitive, single volume overview on the light alloys
- Presents new material on the processing, characteristics, and applications of these essential metals
- Covers the latest applications and processes in the auto and aero industries
Readership
Table of Contents
1. The Light Metals
- Abstract
- 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
- Abstract
- 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
- Abstract
- 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
- Abstract
- 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
- Abstract
- 5.1 Designation, Temper, and Characteristics of Cast Aluminium Alloys
- 5.2 Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Silicon System
- 5.3 Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System
- 5.4 Aluminium–Magnesium Alloys
- 5.5 Aluminium–Zinc–Magnesium Alloys
- Further Reading
6. Magnesium Alloys
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction to Alloying Behavior
- 6.2 Alloy Designations and Tempers
- 6.3 Zirconium-Free Casting Alloys
- 6.4 Zirconium-Containing Casting Alloys
- 6.5 Wrought Magnesium Alloys
- 6.6 Electrochemical Aspects
- 6.7 Fabrication of Components
- 6.8 Trends in Applications
- Further Reading
7. Titanium Alloys
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 α-Alloys
- 7.3 α−β Alloys
- 7.4 β-alloys
- 7.5 Fabrication
- 7.6 Titanium Alloy Castings
- 7.7 Engineering Performance
- 7.8 Applications of Titanium Alloys
- Further Reading
8. Novel Materials and Processing Methods
- Abstract
- 8.1 Composites
- 8.2 Metallic Foams
- 8.3 Rapid Solidification Processing
- 8.4 Quasicrystals
- 8.5 Amorphous Alloys
- 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
Product details
- No. of pages: 544
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2017
- Published: March 29, 2017
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9780080994307
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780080994314
About the Authors
Ian Polmear
Affiliations and Expertise
David StJohn
He has over 300 publications in journals and conference proceedings with research interests covering a broad range of topics including grain refinement and the formation of defects in castings of Al, Mg and Ti alloys. Prof StJohn was awarded the John Campbell Medal in 2014, the Materials Australia Silver Medal in 2011, the Amercian Society of Metals Henry Marion Howe Medal in 2006 and the Magnesium Technology Award by TMS in 2003.
Affiliations and Expertise
Jian-Feng Nie

Affiliations and Expertise
Ma Qian
Affiliations and Expertise
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Mengran Z. Thu Jan 25 2018
It would be a perfect book for all researchers towards light alloy
As the title, this book covers almost all necessary informations about light alloy. It would be a perfect book for all researchers towards light alloy.