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Essential reading for engineers and researchers following developments in this new range of steels, the book explores their properties and applications to the scale of electronic components, and thus has special appeal to physicists and materials scientists.

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High Interstitial Stainless Austenitic Steels is of interest to all engineers and resaerchers working with stainless steel, either at universities or R&D departments in Industry. The new applications described appeal to design engineers while procees engineers find interesting challenges. These novel steels enter more and more industrial applications. Their development is presented by this book in its entirety, starting from the electronic scale of components. This makes it particlularly attractive to Materials Scientists and Metal Physicists.

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Constitution.- Structure.- Properties.- Manufacture.- Assessment.

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HANS BERNS
BORN 1935, STUDIED FERROUS METALLURGY, WORKED IN THE SPECIALIZED STEEL INDUSTRY FROM 1959 TO 1979, DOCTORATE TH ACHEN 1964, HABILITATION TU BERLIN 1975, HELD THE CHAIR OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AT THE RUHR-UNIVERSITY BOCHUM, GERMANY, FROM 1979 TO 2000

VALENTIN GAVRILJUK
BORN 1938, STUDIED METAL PHYSICS; WORKED SINCE 1962 AT INSTITUTE FOR METAL PHYSICS, KIEV, UKRAINE, AS POSTGRADUATE (1962), SENIOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER (1973), LEADING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER (1986), HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES FOR DESIGN OF STEELS AND ALLOYS SINCE 1989; DOCTORATE 1965, HABILITATION 1986.

SASCHA RIEDNER
BORN 1975, STUDIED MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT THE RUHR-UNIVERSITY BOCHUM, GERMANY, MAJORING IN ENGINEERING MATERIALS, RECEIVED HIS DIPLOMA IN 2004 AND HIS DOCTORATE IN 2009, SINCE THEN HAS BEEN WORKING AS AN R+D ENGINEER AT THE GERMAN SPECIALITY STEEL COMPANY (DEW) IN WITTEN.

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