Heat treater´s guide : practices and procedures for nonferrous alloys / Harry Chandler, editor.

Includes and index.

_ Introduction -- Diffusion process -- Annealing cold-worked metals -- Homogenization of castings -- Precipitation hardening treatments -- Developing two-phase structures -- Superalloys -- Characteristics -- Heat treating practice -- Nickle-base alloys -- Cobalt-base alloys -- Iron-base alloys -- Nickel -- Heat treating nickel -- Aluminum alloys -- Strengthening by heat treatment -- Hardening of cast alloys -- Stress relief -- Effects of reheating -- Annealing -- Grain growth -- Dimensional changes during heat treatment -- Quality assurance -- Temper designations for heat-treatable aluminum alloys -- Properties of wrought aluminum and wrought aluminum alloys -- Aluminum casting alloys -- Heat treating aluminum-lithium alloys -- Heat treating aluminum p/m parts -- Heat treatable grades -- Applications -- Heat treating technology -- Copper alloys -- Heat treating copper alloys -- Homogenizing -- Annealing -- Stress relieving -- Hardening -- Copper-beryllium alloys -- Copper-chromium alloys -- Copper-zirconium alloys -- Miscellaneous precipitation-hardening alloys -- Spinodal-hardening -- Copper-aluminum (aluminum bronze) alloys -- Copper casting alloys -- Wrought coppers and copper alloys -- Copper casting alloys -- Heat treating beryllium -- Copper alloys -- Solution annealing -- Age hardening -- Underaging, peak aging, and overaging treatments -- Sintering copper-based materials -- Production sintering of bronze -- Production sintering of brass and nickel silvers

_ Magnesium alloys -- Heat treating magnesium allys -- Types of heat treatment -- Effects of major variables -- Wrought magnesium alloys -- Cast magnesium alloys -- Titanium alloys -- Heat treating titanium alloys -- Alloy types and response to heat treatment -- Stress relieving -- Annealing -- Solution treating and aging -- High purity titanium -- Commercially pure and modified titanium -- Alpha and near-alpha alloys -- Alpha-beta alloys -- Beta and near-beta alloys -- Heat treating cast and P/M titanium -- Modifying microstructure -- Hot isostatic pressing -- Weld repair -- Zinc alloys -- Heat treating zinc alloys -- Heat treatment of zamak and ZA alloys -- Reasons for heat treating -- Supporting documentation -- Convential zinc die casting alloys -- Zinc-aluminum casting alloys -- Lead alloys -- Heat treating lead and lead alloys -- Solid-solution hardening -- Solution treating and aging -- Dispersion hardening -- Fabrication -- Cold storage -- Service temperatures -- Refractory metals and alloys -- Heat treating refractory metals and alloys -- General annealing treatments -- Molybdenum and tungsten annealing practice -- Tantalum and niobium annealing practice -- Tin-rich alloys -- Heat treating tin-rich alloys -- Binary alloys -- Ternary alloys -- Pewter -- Glossary -- Conversion tables -- Cross reference.