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This new edition has been extensively revised and updated since the 3rd edition published in 1994. It contains an even greater depth of industrial information, focussing on how copper metal is extracted from ore and scrap, and how this extraction could be made more efficient.

Modern high intensity smelting processes are presented in detail, specifically flash, Contop, Isasmelt, Noranda, Teniente and direct-to-blister smelting. Considerable attention is paid to the control of SO2 emissions and manufacture of H2SO4. Recent developments in electrorefining, particularly stainless steel cathode technology are examined. Leaching, solvent extraction and electrowinning are evaluated together with their impact upon optimizing mineral resource utilization. The book demonstrates how recycling of copper and copper alloy scrap is an important source of copper and copper alloys. Copper quality control is also discussed and the book incorporates an important section on extraction economics.
Each chapter is followed by a summary of concepts previously described and offers suggested further reading and references.

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This comprehensive, student friendly text is intended for use in an introductory course in physical metallurgy and is designed for all engineering students at the junior or senior level. The approach is largely theoretical but all aspects of physical metallurgy and behavior of metals and alloys are covered. The treatment used in this textbook is in harmony with a more fundamental approach to engineering education. An extensive revision has been done to insure that the content remains the standard for metallurgy engineering courses worldwide. ... Read more

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Awesome.
Arrived right on time in perfect condition. That's pretty much all im looking for from these people.

Good reference but not good for teaching yourself
This is in reference to the hard-cover 3rd edition.

The book is good for reference, with just enough detail to be useful in every topic of materials science. You don't normally find atomic structure, microscopy, dislocation theory and fracture mechanics in one volume. It even has basic thermodynamics and diffusion. BUT because it attempts to be comprehensive, it doesn't have enough room to go into depth in all the topics.

I think this book should be titled "Introduction to Materials Science, before the nano-polymer revolution." I think it would be a better title.

I think this is how the book was written:
1. Take a intro to materials book
2. take out electro-opti-magnetic properties
3. add fracture mechanics.
4. make it thicker.

If you want to learn the subject, I think there are better books that are easier to read. But if you want to pull it off your shelf to read bits and pieces, this is pretty good.

Slightly Disappointed in 4th Ed.
I love materials science and as a bibliophile I anticipated the release this new edition for months.Surely for that price and the 15 year interim since the last edition, I expected a grand volume updated with multicolored illustrations, supplementary sidebars, interactive CD, example problems - sometime suitable for bedtime reading at my wife's side.But alas.

Well, at least the 4th Ed. has a nicer cover, and some of the typos were corrected.The content is still excellent even though the authors had the audacity to omit two chapters on fracture mechanics"to increase the focus of the text" - okay.

My advise: Buy the 3rd edition instead.You'll be getting more for less.

May be great reference, but not good for learning
It has been three years since I had taken a material science-like course.So, I had hoped, that by opening this book, I would relearn the concepts I had forgotten.

Focus:
An intense look at the physcial metallurgy of metals, beginning with methods, going to crystallography, phase diagrams, and focusing on specific metals (iron-carbon, steels, etc.).

Good:
This book goes into great details.Metallography, crystallography are explained, many concepts are in great depth.

Bad:
This is absolutely not a good book if you don't know much on the subject or are rusty (likeme).A lot of time is spent on the intricacies on microscopy.Many of the concepts are presented in too much detail.I feel that instead of learning about the properties of materials and material selection that I spend most of the time learning about every detail involved in the creation of dislocations.While this is very informative, as an engineer, I need to be able to select apropos materials, not spout how an electron microscope works or the fine details in edge dislocation.Homework problems are odd.And would it hurt if the pictures could have been colored?

Overall:
Again, good reference.Bad at teaching or reteaching you material science.

Very good foundation
I believe that this book is an excellent text for understanding physical metallurgy for the beginner .This is also an excellent reference manual for later information. ... Read more

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The aim of this book is to help towards a broader and clearer understanding of what may soon become a major metallurgical technique - plasma metallurgy. The book gives a comprehensive yet readily understood explanation of how the use of low-temperature plasma affects the mechanisms and thermodynamics of metallurgical reactions. It deals with fundamentals, describing present equipment and applications to illustrate the scope of plasma techniques. Chapters are devoted to the elementary processes in a plasma, the properties of plasma-forming gases, plasma sources and their circuit schemes, primary and secondary metallurgy operations in the extraction and refining of both ferrous and non-ferrous metals and alloys, and some representative applications. No prior knowledge of the field is necessary; the book is intended for equipment and process designers, research workers, industrial management staff, and students. ... Read more

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great reference for many types of plasmas
Although price prohibitive, this is a good work for engineers getting introduced to plasmas and their industrial applications. ... Read more

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Of all the crafts and professions other than the priesthood, none has been more closely connected with the religious taditions of Western peoples than mining and metallurgy. Not so long ago our ancestors would have found it incredible that people could not see the connections between mining, metallurgy, and the sacred, just as we now find it incredible that they could. What was a commonplace to the European mind for millennia has for us become a matter of the deepest obscurity. This is a matter of more than historical interest. It goes to the heart of how we think about work, about religion, and about the relations between people and nature. For our ancestors most forms of work were spiritual paths, disciplines that shaped those who engaged in them as powerfully as the ritual of church or temple. In many crafts and professions the stages by which the learner was inducted were initiations into substantial undestandings of the spirit and of spiritual practice. The early chapters of this book consider how the smith god of the Greeks and Romans made the world in his forge, how Moses made the tabernacle as God commanded, and how mining was sanctified in the Middle Ages. Traditionally, these forms of work were thought to repeat and extend the creative powers of God and nature, and those who engaged in them enjoying a special insight into the processes of the divine creaion. The withdrawal of the sacred sense from human work has diminished religion in many Western societies, and the several stages by which this withdrawal occurred is one of the major concerns of this book. This same withdrawal has also diminished our sense of the relations between the human and natural worlds. In earlier times people felt that working with the natural world helped it to bring to birth the many goods with which it was in labor. Work fulfilled not only the worker but nature itself. Even in quite recent times the spirits of the earth, the fairies and dwarfts, actively assisted farmers and miners in their work according to common belief, and the fifth chapter considers some of the stories about these elemental denizens of the mine. The final chapter examines how the belief in such creatures came to be lost and the consequences of that loss for our understanding of the natural world. This book is a book of stories from many different places and times in the history of the West, and the juxtaposition of these stories in a coherent sequence reveals a way of looking at work, nature, and religon that was much more substantial than is our own. ... Read more

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Updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this book helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the interaction of the tooling and metal during plastic deformation.New to this edition is updated coverage of sheet forming, recognizing appropriate boundary conditions, slab analysis, Hill's generalized anisotropic yield criteria, high exponent criterion, an approximate analysis of earing, sheet metal properties, and more.An ideal reference for mechanical engineers, materials engineers, and metallurgical engineers, as well as researchers in sheet forming. ... Read more

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Best undergraduate textbook on metal forming
I have used this book over and over again in my 16 years as a metallurgist.It is written in a style that is easy to follow and there are very few typo's in the formulas. ... Read more

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The book describes the results of over 20 years research completed this year at one of the world's premier consumable manufacturers and aimed at improving the properties of MMA electrodes for high quality applications. ... Read more

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Whether you're an experienced evaluator of mineral projects, a student, or a decision maker who is not a practitioner but must use evaluation results, this new book is an essential reference for your bookshelf. Designed to complement traditional engineering texts, this book emphasizes the concepts of mineral project evaluation rather than computational details. It describes various economic evaluation techniques typically employed (including conventional cost analysis, discounted cash flow, and option analysis), their uses, and their relationships with geological, technological, and financial evaluations. Also discussed are the strengths and weaknesses of commonly practiced evaluation methods.

This book explains the practical difficulties in conducting an analysis and correctly interpreting the results, as well as the use of alternative techniques. Because many existing texts do not adequately discuss the meanings and application of merit measures, such as net present value (NPV) or internal rate of return (IRR), this book represents an exciting departure from standard reference tools. Contents include: why NPV and IRR are both valid and useful merit measures the shortcomings of conventional NPV and IRR analysis the dangers of scenario analysis why conventional incremental analysis is not needed to correctly calculate IRR why the desire to achieve NPV-consistent IRR is misleading how competitive cost analysis is conducted and used why option pricing is an important addition to the evaluation process.

When used correctly, evaluation methods are powerful tools to help us understand the economics of investment projects. Don't miss out on this new source. Contains glossary and full index. ... Read more

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Evaluating Mineral Projects
The mineral evaluator has that peculiar necessity of requiring knowledge equally in the two fields of his discipline: the physical science that explains minerals and the financial science that arranges the numbers describing their configuration.

This is a good introduction to financial side of the discipline of evaluating mineral resources. The concepts are described from scratch with great lucidity. Abstruse concepts of the financial apparatus are given a commonsensical turn which deftly assist the understanding. Methods of valuation which rely on geological and minerological investigations are unfortunately sparsely treated or absent.

For a quick introduction to the subject, one that is easy to understand and thorough on the financial side of mineral appraisal, I do recommend this book.

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*Provides engineers, researchers, and designers with a complete understanding of how various metals perform under a wide range of conditions
*Explains the advantages, disadvantages, and tradeoffs of using different materials and processes
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Good book, but with a somewhat misleading title
This is a good book, but with a somewhat misleading title.It should more accurately have been titled Physical Metallurgy of Steels because it is primarily about steels and is much more than just a handbook.A handbook conjures up a vision of a book that is primarily a source for data.There is a lot of data in this book, but it contains much, much, more.It is an excellent text, covering all aspects of the metallurgy of steel in great detail.There are separate chapters on Pearlite, Martensite, Bainite and Austenite, as well as ones on the hardenability and heat treatment of steels; plus chapters on the metallurgy of diffusion, plastic deformation, recovery-recrystallization, grain growth and nucleation in solids in general.These chapters cover all metals, not just iron based ones.This is an excellent metallurgy reference, particularly for anyone interested in steels.
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Originally published in 1908.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Otto ridicules his sister for eating so much and having a pot belly, but the time comes when he appreciates her foraging abilities and fearlessness. ... Read more

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Has a good Richardson-Jeffes nomograph
Darken and Gurry's text contains an excellent nomograph for the Richardson-Jeffes diagram (Figure 14-4, page 349).It is better than Richardson and Jeffes' original diagram in the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Vol. 160, 1948, pages 261-270.Richardson & Jeffes used a translucent overlay, but Darken & Gurry made it into a nomograph, making it easier to copy and draw on.It also contains more information than the Ellingham diagram (H. J. T. Ellingham, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, Vol. 63, 1944, pages 125-133).

The classic metallurgical thermodynamics text
This is the classic text that applies thermodynamics and physical chemistry to metallic systems.The thermodynamics follows the basic approach of texts such as Lewis and Randall's "Thermodynamics".The opening chapters cover gasses and liquids as background for the rest of the book that is oriented to metallic systems.It begins with the laws of thermodynamics, but instead of focusing on steam engines it concentrates on solutions, heterogeneous equilibrium and phase diagrams.The book provides a firm foundation for understanding phase relations and phase diagrams.It covers metal (mostly Fe) oxide, carbide, nitride and sulfide systems with specific reference to steel production.I feel that its discussion of Richardson diagrams is particularly clear and I have used it and the diagrams that are provided for over 40 years.The book covers more than just thermodynamics. Being a physical chemistry text, applied to metals, it also has chapters on kinetics, electrochemistry and diffusion.

This is the classic text that has been the basis of more modern books.In my opinion it may have been equaled, but never been surpassed for clarity and the depth of understanding that it provides.I would recommend this book for students and practicing metallurgists who want an adjunct to their current textbooks.

Great Book about finding one's niche in the world
Gertrude the Possum has a potbelly.Her brother Otto does not and ridicules her for it. However when Otto goes out after her one night in search of food and is unsucessful, she is able to prove that she is courageous and is able to find food for the both of them.This book is delightfully different than most books with an overweight protogonist.Instead of Gertrude losing weight and becoming a "normal" sized possum, she is able to come into her own and prove herself.This book is fine proof that you need not be of "normal" weight to be successful in what you do. ... Read more

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Chapters on copper and Bronze, gold, silver, lead, iron, zin, brass. on evolving mining and metal-working capabilities, illus. major scholarly analysis ... Read more

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Physical Metallurgy describes the microstructure, transformation and properties of metallic materials using solid state physics and chemical thermodynamics. The author also treats experimental methods of physical metallurgy. The third edition includes new sections on the permeation of hydrogen in metals, the Landau theory of martensitic transformation, and order hardening and plasticity of intermetallics. The author has brought numerous other sections up to date in the light of new developments such as scanning tunneling microscopy, CALPHAD-method, diffusion in glasses, DIGM, and recrystallization. His clear and concise coverage of a remarkably wide range of topics will appeal both to physics students at the threshold of their metallurgical careers and to metallurgists who are interested in the physical foundation of their field. ... Read more

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One of the best physical metallurgy books ever
This is based on the 3rd edition paperback book, NOT the multi-volume series.

What can I say, I think this is one of the best books for teaching yourself physical metallurgy. It is a very very good introduction.

1. It is cheaper than most other texts.
2. It mentions pretty much all of the important principles, but keeps it pretty short (only 402 pages of text).
3. It is well written and easy to understand, provided you have some background in materials science.
4. It is designed to be read in any order you like. Each section will tell you what other sections you should have already read.

The only downside is that it is old and only available in paperback. The author passed away in 93 right after finishing the 3rd edition. We will have to wait for somebody else to come along and write a new and/or updated book.

Advanced and comprehensive
Some of the other reviews given here are of Physical Metallurgy by Peter Haasen, which is a single volume, 375-page metallurgy textbook.Amazon is lumping the reviews of this single volume text together with a three volume, 3000-page, virtual encyclopedia edited by Robert W. Cahn and Peter Haasen.My review is of the three-volume set.

This is an advanced text, in three volumes, made up of 32 authoritative articles. It is the fourth edition of a series began in 1960's, which can fairly be considered as the bible of physical metallurgy.This book is very comprehensive, covering all aspects of physical metallurgy, i.e., crystal structure, microstructure, metallurgical thermodynamics, alloys, phase diagrams, phase transformations, diffusion, dislocation theory, solidification, sintering, mechanical properties, metal fatigue, fracture and other topics, including a metallurgists guide to polymers. (The polymer section, while not metallurgy, falls under the topic of materials selection, which is often covered in metallurgy texts.)The only areas that are not covered are those, such as electronic properties, which are generally classed as solid-state physics.This book (the fourth edition) presents a comprehensive view of physical metallurgy as of the mid 1990's, with articles written by experts in their subspecialties.They are advanced and are suitable for practicing metallurgists and graduate students.Each is in effect a 100-page advanced textbook.The book is a great reference source and each section could be used as an advanced course text.However, I think that this series of three volumes is too advanced and detailed for those who only want a brief overview of physical metallurgy.

I think that the very high price for these three volumes requires some comment.In effect, one is getting 32 short textbooks and on that basis the price is not exorbitant.Many of the chapter authors have written texts on the same subject as their chapter.Many of these books, while generally longer, are priced in the range of $100.If you want this series primarily for a single subject, say, metallurgical thermodynamics or metal fatigue you would probably be better off buying a text on that subject.Buying the whole series makes sense for a library or for the business use of several employees.

where are the rest of books I ordered?
I have ordered two sets of three volume set book of 'Physical Metallurgy' Physical Metallurgy, Fourth Edition (Three Volume Set) last November. Last week Friday two books from one set (vol. 1 & 2) were delivered to my address, where are the rest of FOUR books? The service has been very slow and incomplete, please confirm the delivery from Amazon was proper.

regards, Yujie Dong

ideal source of information...
... when you already have a basic understanding of the subject.
This book is very useful as introduction to physical metallurgy, but students and researchers familiar with the subject will find it a condensed and concise reference.

This book is a FANTASTIC reference text
One look through the index will show you all you want to know. Check out this list of random buzz words from metallurgy and physics:Phonon Spectra, Rutherford backscattering, Spinodal decomposition, TEM bright field imaging, magnetic susceptibility, Kikuchi patterns, Phase diagrams, Van der Waals bond...

Isn't that great? For anybody doing any sort of work related to metallurgy, this text represents an excellent source for information that is general enough for daily use, but specific enough to be useful.Every chapter is very well written and can stand alone without the rest of the text. There are several volumes to this text, I believe, so be sure to find all of them. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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What to find
Physical Metallurgy of Steels contains basic and relevant topics of Physical Metallurgy.
Perhaps it is an oldy but, this well worths to get it in your personal library. ... Read more