The Chemical Analysis of Steel-Works' Materials

Abstract

THE “Analysis of Steel-Works' Materials” of Brearley and Ibbotson has long enjoyed a reputation as a sound and trustworthy manual of the subject with which it deals, and its contents are familiar to most steel analysts. The revision of the work has been undertaken by one of the authors only, and advantage has been taken of the occasion to extend the treatment of steels, alloys, slags, etc., on the analytical side, and to gain space for such extensions by omitting the sections of the earlier work dealing with pyrometry and the use of the microscope. In the interval which has elapsed since the original publication many books on these two subjects have made their appearance, and their development has been so rapid that it has become undesirable to attempt their treatment in the course of a few short chapters in a work devoted mainly to a different branch of the subject. Mr. Ibbotson's experience of the analysis of steel-works' materials is exceptionally wide, and the methods which he describes have been in all cases personally tested and compared with alternative processes, so that the author may be accepted as a safe guide, especially in the difficult region of the analysis of high-speed tool steels and other complex alloys containing the rarer metals.

The Chemical Analysis of Steel-Works' Materials.

By F. Ibbotson. Pp. viii + 296. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1920.) 21s. net.