Coverage on heat treating in the
ASM Handbook series is being expanded into several volumes, and
ASM Handbook, Volume 4A, Steel Heat Treating Fundamentals and Processes is the first of multiple volumes on heat treating.
Volume 4A introduces the basics of steel heat treating and provides in-depth coverage of the many steel heat treating processes. Coverage includes:
- Physical metallurgy of steel heat treatment
- Fundamentals of steel hardness and hardenability
- Practical aspects of hardenability as a key criterion in the selection of steel
- Hardenability calculations and the use of hardenability data
- Fundamentals and practical aspects of steel quenching
- Expanded coverage on quenching processes
- Updates and expansion on annealing, tempering, austempering and martempering
- New articles on cleaning, subcritical annealing, austenitising, and quench partitioning of steel heat treatment
- Significant expansion on the fundamental and applied aspects of surface hardening by applied energy, carburising, carbonitriding, nitriding, and diffusion coatings
Editors and authors have also added charts, examples, and practical reference data for application purposes.
Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.