Stainless Steels
Joseph R. Davis
ASM Specialty Handbook® Stainless Steels
The best single-volume reference on the metallurgy, selection, processing, performance, and evaluation of stainless steels, incorporating essential information culled from across the ASM Handbook series. Includes additional data and reference information carefully selected and adapted from other authoritative ASM sources. |
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acid addition alloys amount annealed applications attack austenitic stainless steels boiling carbides carbon cast cause chemical chloride chromium cold composition concentration contain cooling Corrosion rate corrosion resistance cracking crevice depending duplex effect elements embrittlement environments example exposure failure ferrite ferritic stainless steels filler finished forging formation grades grain grain boundaries hardening hardness heat higher hydrogen improved increase intergranular iron less levels lower machining martensitic material maximum mechanical metal mm/yr nickel nitrogen occur operations oxidation oxygen phase pitting powder precipitation present produced properties protection range reducing removed selection sensitization severe shown shows sintered sion solution Source specimens strength stress sulfide sulfur surface Table temperature Tempering tensile thickness tion tool treatment tubing typical usually various weld wire yield