If you are involved with machining or metalworking or you specify materials for industrial components, this book is an absolute must. It gives you detailed and comprehensive information about the selection, processing, and properties of materials for machining and metalworking applications. They include wrought and powder metallurgy tool steels, cobalt base alloys, cemented carbides, cermets, ceramics, and ultra-hard materials. You'll find specific guidelines for optimizing machining productivity through the proper selection of cutting tool materials plus expanded coverage on the use of coatings to extend cutting tool and die life. There is also valuable information on alternative heat treatments for improving the toughness of tool and die steels. All new material on the correlation of heat treatment microstructures and properties of tool steels is supplemented with dozens of photomicrographs. Information on special tooling considerations for demanding applications such as isothermal forging, die casting of metal matrix composites, and molding of corrosive plastics is also included. And you'll learn about alternatives to ferrous materials for metalworking applications such as carbides, cermets, ceramics, and nonferrous metals like aluminum, nickel, and copper base alloys.

This thesis was carried out as a study of Material selection in mechanical design of cutting tool The objectives of this study are to perform material selection process for find the best material that can be use as cutting tools material, compare the alternative method with conventional method and use Computer-aided selection software (CES) to find the best process for cutting tools manufacturing. Weighted property method as alternative method and cost per unit property method as conventional method was performing for finding the suitable material for cutting tools. The material selected from these two methods was compared to find the best selected material. Before performing weighted property method, material performance index, M, was finding first. To finding the materials performance index, M, derivation of basic formula like stiffness and cross section must perform first. Function of materials performance index, M, was plotted on the Young's modulus - density chart and wear rate- hardness chart. In cost per unit property method, the best material was selected based on the smaller value of cost per unit property. After selection by using cost per unit property has done, weighted properties method was performing. The material selection is making by referring to the performance index. The highest value of performance index represents the best material for cutting tools. Lastly, computer Aided selection process was used to find the suitable manufacturing process for selected material.

Interest in ceramics as a high speed cutting tool material is based primarily on favorable material properties. As a class of materials, ceramics possess high melting points, excellent hardness and good wear resistance. Unlike most metals, hardness levels in ceramics generally remain high at elevated temperatures which means that cutting tip integrity is relatively unaffected at high cutting speeds. Ceramics are also chemically inert against most workmetals.

Erstmals in einem Band werden Werkstoffe hier (in zwei getrennten Systemen) sowohl nach ihrer technischen Anwendung als auch nach ihren Eigenschaften geordnet. - Benutzer können deshalb zunächst nach der Gruppe von Materialen suchen, die für eine spezielle Anwendung geeignet sind, und anschließend Details über jedes einzelne Material finden - Suchkriterien sind Eigenschaften wie Wärmeleitfähigkeit, optisches Reflexionsvermögen, Elastizität usw. und Anwendungsgebiete wie Bauwesen, Biomedizin, Fahrzeugbau, Luftfahrttechnik, Elektrotechnik usw. - berücksichtigt werden sowohl herkömmliche Werkstoffe (Eisen- und Nichteisenmetalle, Kunststoffe, Klebstoffe) als auch Kompositwerkstoffe und synthetische Materialen wie Laminate, Fasern und Keramiken