You'll find all the heat treating topics covered in this one essential volume. Contents include: Heat Treating of Steel- quenching, tempering and annealing, continuos annealing, quantitative methods to predict hardenability Surface Hardening of Steel - processing case hardened materials Heat Treating Equipment - emphasis on furnace design and thermal efficiency Process and QC Considerations - improved sensors and oxygen probes for temperature/atmospheric/carbon control, statistical process control Heat Treating of Cast Irons - includes data on austempered ductile iron and high alloy irons Heat Treating of Stainless Steels and Heat Resistant Alloys - includes super alloys and refractory metals and alloys Sections on Heat Treating of Tool Steels and Nonferrous Alloys.