Light Alloys: Metallurgy of the Light Metals (Metallurgy and Materials Science Series)

"The fact that the light metals aluminium, magnesium and titanium have traditionally been associated with the aerospace industries has tended to obscure their growing importance as general engineering materials. For example, aluminium is now the second most widely-used metal and production during the next two decades is predicted to expand at a rate greater than that for all other structural metals. Titanium, which has a unique combination of properties that have made its alloys vital for gas turbine engines, is now finding many applications in aircraft structures and in the chemical industry... Light alloys have never been the subject of a single book. Thus it is hoped that the appearance of this first text is timely." ---from the Preface