title: Steel Heat Treatment Handbook - 2 Volume Set (Steel Heat Treatment Handbook, Second Edition)
author: George E. Totten
description: This comprehensive resource provides practical, new approaches to steel heat treatment topics such as sources of residual stress and distortion, hardenability, prediction, modeling, effects of steel alloy chemistry on heat treatment, quenching, carburizing, nitriding, vacuum heat treatment, metallography, and process equipment. Well illustrated with nearly 1000 tables, equations, figures, and photographs, the Steel Heat Treatment Handbook is an excellent reference for materials, manufacturing, heat treatment, maintenance, mechanical, industrial, process and quality control, design, and research engineers; department or corporate metallurgists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.
zlib_text: Preface
  The first edition of the Steel Heat Treatment Handbook was initially released in 1997. The
  objective of that book was to provide the reader with well-referenced information on the
  subjects covered with sufficient depth and breadth to serve as either an advanced under-
  graduate or graduate level text on heat treatment or as a continuing handbook reference for
  the designer or practicing engineer. However, since the initial release of the first edition of the
  Steel Heat Treatment Handbook, there have been various advancements in the field that
  needed to be addressed to assure up-to-date coverage of the topic. This text, Steel Heat
  Treatment: Metallurgy and Technologies, is part of a revision of the earlier text. Some of the
  chapters in this text are updated revisions of the earlier book and others are completely new
  chapters or revisions. These chapters include:
  Chapter 1.
  Steel Nomenclature (Revision)
  Chapter 2.
  Classification and Mechanisms of Steel Transformations (New Chapter)