Steel and Its Heat Treatment (Classic Reprint)

Heat Treatment should be considered as an art or trade, since it certainly requires knowledge, skill and judgment for its proper performance. These, in turn, necessitate at least some knowledge of heat, of steel, and of the effect of heat upon steel. And all three factors are linked together by the human element. The author has therefore endeavored to bring together the theoretical and practical sides of the general subject of steel and its heat treatment in such a manner as will, he hopes, be understandable by that human element. It has been the authors attempt to make the chapters dealing with the heating problem more of a heat talk than of a furnace talk ;of heat application rather than details of construction; of the importance of the human element and scientific efficiency rather than the elimination of the human element through scientific management; and finally, of viewing the heating problem as an engineering proposition, adapting each fuel to proper furnace design and operation to meet the requirements of the problem in hand, and by so doing aim for the adoption of the standard heating unit in terms of finished product the cost of a unit of quantity of given quality. He has attempted to make as practical as possible those chapters relating to steel and the effect of heat upon steel. Theories have been advanced only so far as has been thought necessary for a clear understanding of principles. Wherever possible, illustrations in the form of photomicrographs and charts have been given. The data given under the various types of heat-treated steels have been checked as far as possible and every effort has been made to be correct.
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