Handbook of Aluminum: Vol. 1: Physical Metallurgy and Processes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by George E. Totten, D. Scott MacKenzie

1310 pages.

BRIEF CONTENTS

Part One – ALUMINUM PHYSICAL METALLURGY AND ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES

  • Introduction to Aluminum
  • Properties of Pure Aluminum
  • Physical Metallurgy and the Effect of Alloying Additions in Aluminum Alloys
  • Recrystallization and Grain Growth
  • Hardening, Annealing, and Aging
  • Residual Stress and Distortion

Part Two – PROCESSING OF ALUMINUM

  • Rolling of Aluminum
  • Extrusion
  • Aluminum Welding
  • Casting Design
  • Modeling of the Filling, Solidification, and Cooling of Shaped Aluminum Castings
  • Castings
  • Molten Metal Processing
  • Shaping by Pulling from the Melt
  • Low-g Crystallization for High-Tech Castings
  • Designing for Aluminum Forging
  • Forging
  • Sheet Forming of Aluminum Alloys
  • Heat Treating Processes and Equipment
  • Quenching
  • Machining
  • Superplastic Forming
  • Aluminum Chemical Milling
  • Powder Metallurgy

PREVIEW

Some usuful figures from this book

The flow-sheet of the Bayer process of production of alumina from bauxite [Introduction in Aluminum, Fig. 7]

Flow-sheet for production of aluminium from alumina [Introduction in Aluminum, Fig. 6]

Super-purity aluminium refining furnace [Introduction in Aluminum, Fig. 11]

Hot strip casting and rolling mills for aluminium alloys (Mannesmann Demag AG, 1992)
[Rolling aluminum, Fig. 1]

Cold rolling mills for aluminium alloys (Mannesmann Demag AG, 1992)
[Rolling aluminum, Fig. 7]

Mechanisms of oil entrainment during cold- and foil-rolling
[Rolling of Aluminum, Fig. 17]