Professional English for Metal Materials 金属材料专业英语

普通高等教育“十四五”规划教材

This textbook can not only be used as a “professional English book” for students majoring in metal material engineering, but also can be used as a valuable reference book for students to comprehend professional courses on metal materials in colleges and universities. By reading this textbook, both the professional knowledge of metal materials and English reading comprehension ability can be enhanced. Therefore, this textbook is a good book for learning both professional knowledge and English for people who are engaged in metal materials related majors.

This textbook systematically introduces the main professional knowledge that the students majoring in metal material engineering are supposed to know. The contents include: introduction to materials, crystal structure of metal materials, binary phase diagram of alloys, mechanical properties of metal materials, strengthening mechanisms of metal materials, carbon and alloy steels, heat treatment of steels, cast irons and their heat treatment, nonferrous metals and their heat treatment, surface hardening. And the mechanical properties of metal materials and the strengthening mechanism, heat treatment and surface hardening technology of metal materials are the domain contents.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Materials

1.1 The materials world

1.2 The task of materials researchers and engineers

1.3 Types of materials

1.4 Selection of materials

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Chapter 2 Structure of Metal Materials

2.1 Crystal structure

2.2 Defects in crystals

2.3 Solidification of metals and ingot structures

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Chapter 3 Binary Phase Diagram of Alloys

3.1 Introduction to alloys

3.2 Construction of phase diagrams

3.3 Typical equilibrium diagrams

3.4 Iron-cementite diagram

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Chapter 4 Mechanical Properties of Metal Materials

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Tensile test

4.3 Strength, ductility, toughness, and resilience

4.4 Hardness

4.5 Fatigue resistance

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Chapter 5 Strengthening Mechanisms of Metal Materials

5.1 Deformation of metal materials

5.2 Strengthening mechanism of metal materials

5.3 Strain hardening (Work hardening)

5.4 Solid solution strengthening

5.5 Fining grain size strengthening

5.6 Precipitation/Dispersion strengthening

5.7 A brief sunmary

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Chapter 6 Carbon and Alloy Steels

6.1 Introduction to ferrous metals

6.2 Carbon steels

6.3 Alloy steels

6.4 Stainless steels

6.5 Steels for use at high temperatures

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Chapter 7 Heat Treatment of Steels

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Microstructure transformations

7.3 TTT diagram

7.4 CCT diagram

7.5 Annealing

7.6 Normalizing

7.7 Quenching

7.8 Tempering

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Chapter 8 Cast Irons and Their Heat Treatment

8.1 The iron-carbon system for cast irons

8.2 Grey cast iron

8.3 Malleable cast iron

8.4 Spheroidal graphite cast irons

8.5 Alloy cast irons

8.6 White cast irons

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Chapter 9 Non-ferrous Metals and Their Heat Treatment

9.1 Introduction of non-ferrous metals

9.2 Aluminum alloys

9.3 Copper alloys

9.4 Magnesium alloys

9.5 Titanium alloys

9.6 Nickel alloys

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Chapter 10 Surface Hardening

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Diffusion methods

10.3 Selective hardening methods

10.4 Comparison of surface hardening treatments

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