Alloy Steel – Properties and Applications

Editor: Eduardo Valencia Morales
This book aims to bring together a series of articles that present new ideas arising from significant advancements in the understanding of steel over the past few decades. The book discusses the relationship between the structure, composition, and properties of steel, and how these are influenced by environmental factors such as stress, temperature, and strain.

Main topics covered in the book include:

New approaches and uses of stainless steels
Behavior of different steel types under environmental factors
New structural concepts for understanding fatigue processes
Insights into the mechanisms of strength and toughness in micro-alloyed steels
Tempering kinetics of low-alloy steels, analyzed using the modified Avrami approach

Each chapter contains an updated reference list to allow readers to delve deeper into specific topics.

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