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Physical Metallurgy

  • 6th Edition - May 15, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: David E. Laughlin, Kazuhiro Hono
  • Language: English

Physical Metallurgy, Sixth Edition preserves the excellence of the previous editions of this popular work, keeping everything up-to-date and offering definitive, in-depth chapters… Read more

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Description

Physical Metallurgy, Sixth Edition preserves the excellence of the previous editions of this popular work, keeping everything up-to-date and offering definitive, in-depth chapters with superb coverage and clarity of explanations. The book provides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of both ferrous and non-ferrous materials, written by leaders in the respective field, going from fundamental and foundational understanding to a higher level of knowledge. The book expertly integrates fundamental theory with advanced materials characterization techniques. It is an excellent resource for students and early-career metallurgists, while also offering great depth and insight for more experienced readers.

The chapters have been revised and expanded, with new chapters on the physical metallurgy of light alloys and titanium alloys, as well as atom probe field ion microscopy, computational metallurgy, and orientational imaging microscopy. Emphasis on sustainability is encouraged throughout, and the volumes incorporate the latest experimental research results and theoretical insights.

Key features

  • Provides a comprehensive resource that assists in our understanding of the relationship between the (micro) structure and physical extensive properties of metals
  • Exhaustively synthesizes pertinent, contemporary developments within physical metallurgy so scientists have authoritative information at their fingertips
  • Enables metallurgists to predict changes and create novel alloys and processes
  • Covers new and important areas of metallurgy including high entropy alloys, computational materials science, additively manufactured alloys, and the use of alloys in biomaterials modeling and simulation

Readership

Teaching and research faculty, as well as advanced graduate and post-doctoral research level students specializing in physical metallurgy, as well as materials science and engineering. Researchers and staff members of government and industrial research laboratories. A broader readership from related subject areas including physics, chemistry, nanotechnology, and biomedical engineering will also find this useful for reference. Some upper-undergraduate level may also find the work to be of use in their final year theses

Table of contents

1. Crystal Structures of Metallic Elements and Compounds

2. Electron Theory of Complex Metallic Alloys

3. Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams

4. Metallic Glasses

5. Diffusion in Metals and Alloys

6. Defects in Metals

7. Solidification

8. Diffusional Phase Transformations in the Solid State

9. Phase Transformations: Nondiffusive

10. Microstructure of Metals and Alloys 1073

11. Orientation Mapping

12. Transmission Electron Microscopy for Physical Metallurgists

13. X-ray and Neutron Scattering

14. Structure, Composition and Energy of Solid-Solid Interfaces

15. Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscopy

16. Dislocations

17. Plastic Deformation of Metals and Alloys 1681

18. Fatigue of Metals 1765

19. Magnetic Properties of Metals and Alloys 1881

20. Physical Metallurgy of Light Alloys 2009

21. Physical Metallurgy of Steels 2157

22. Physical Metallurgy of the Nickel-Based Superalloys 2215

23. Recovery and Recrystallization: Phenomena, Physics, Models, Simulation 2291

24. Porous Metals 2399

25. Hydrogen in Metals 2597

26. Physical Metallurgy of Nanocrystalline Metals 2707

27. Computational Metallurgy 2807

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 15, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

DL

David E. Laughlin

David E. Laughlin is the ALCOA Professor of Physical Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has taught since 1974. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at CMU.He is the Principal Editor of the Metallurgical and Materials Transactions family of journals of ASM International and TMS. His research has centered on the investigation of the structure of materials by means of transmission electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction. He has studied various diffusional phase transformations by detailed analysis of their micro-structure as well as electron diffraction patterns. For the past 25 years he has focused on the investigation of the magnetic properties and microstructure of soft magnets (HITPERM), hard magnets (FePt and CoPt) and magnetic thin films for recording media. He co-chairs the Data Storage Systems Center Magnetic Recording Group. He has taught courses on physical metallurgy, electron microscopy, diffraction techniques, thermodynamics, crystallography, magnetic materials and phase transformations. He is a director of both the X-ray Central Facility and the Electron Optics Central Facility of the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University. He has more than 400 technical publications in the field of phase transformations, physical metallurgy and magnetic materials, and has edited or co-edited eight books and has ten U.S. Patents in the field of magnetic recording. He was elected as an Honorary member of the AIME and is a Fellow of ASM and TMS.
Affiliations and expertise
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

KH

Kazuhiro Hono

Kazuhiro Hono is NIMS Fellow, Director of Magnetic Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
Affiliations and expertise
National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan