Physical Metallurgy and Heat Treatment of Steel

This book covers the physical metallurgy of steels as well as the heat treatments used to improve thetheirproperties.Afull chapter is dedicated to the atmospheres in the steelmaking,includingthe implications of the own gases generated in the iron and steelmaking factories and how they could be applied in these treatments.This book is specially conceived for graduate and undergraduate courses, being theresult of more than 30 years of teaching experience in courses for undergraduate, graduate (master and Ph. D.), and companies (technicians). Thetrendsin the re-utilization of industrial gases in the iron and steelmaking processare discussed by the authors. Additionally, the book comprises41 solved exercises, problems and case-studies,as a complement of the theoretical sections of the text. These exercises, problems, and case-studies are based on problems observed in the industrial practice.