Physical Metallurgy - V. Raghavan

Now in its second edition, this text presents the principles and applications of engineering metals and alloys. This new edition retains all the basic topics of the previous edition, such as phase diagrams, phase transformations, heat treatment of steels and nonferrous alloys, solidification, fatigue, fracture and corrosion. This second edition has been updated and rewritten for greater clarity, and more diagrams have been added to illustrate the concepts discussed.

V. Raghavan, Ph.D. (Sheffield), formerly Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, taught Metallurgy and Materials Science courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass., and at IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi for many years. A Fellow of the American Society for Metals and an Honorary Member of the Indian Institute of Metals, Professor Raghavan is the recipient of the Brunton Medal of Sheffield University, UK (1964), the G.D. Birla Gold Medal of the Indian Institute of Metals (1985), and the Hume-Rothery Award of the Institute of Materials, UK (2001).