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Book Recommendation

Book Recommendation

Book Recommendation

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Can you recommend a good book that will cover the basics of most all commercially available steels, including stainless, that has machinability, heat treatment tables, hardness, etc.  Plus, a chapter on Stainless steel and corrosion, galling, heat treating, etc.  

If not one book than two.  I did come across some website that had a book on SS galling, but didn't save it.

thanks
gary

RE: Book Recommendation

The book below is probably one of the most comprehensive materials engineering reference books that provides information related to your stated interests

ASM Metals Handbook, Desk Edition

http://www.asminternational.org/

RE: Book Recommendation

Some metallurgy books are recommended in thread330-139196

Threads with links to free info:
Free ASM Handbook chapters on coatings, corrosion
[other topics, too].
thread338-143566

Free magazines: Corrosion Science (Jan. 2006); Inspect This! (NACE)
thread338-143565

Carpenter Technology has free [my favorite word] publications on stainless steel; both online & by mail.  Free registration required.  They have a nice booklet on stainless steels, 200+ pages if memory serves (can't find my copy right now) with technical info and a chapter on galling.  They sell some 'Gall Tough' versions of SS.  Try http://www.cartech.com/cartech/ProdLitOrderFormServlet?leftn=sao_products&;lefto=empty&lefti=sao_pl0

The Nickel Institute http://www.nidi.org/ has thousands of free publications on nickel alloys, mostly stainless steels, including 375 pdf's for downloading.

RE: Book Recommendation

This is not an advertisement but if you join ASM for a nominal yearly fee, you not only have access to the Desk Edition that metengr recommended but also to searches etc.  If you have more than several metallurgy questions/year then you might want to pay an additional nominal fee for access to 20 volumes of metals information online worth over $3,000 hardcopy or CD's.

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