Handbook of Steel for Strategic Applications

This volume presents a state-of-the-art synthesis of recent advances in steels for strategic applications. It spans carbon and heat-treatable grades; high-strength low-alloy, ultra-high-strength, and advanced high-strength steels; as well as austenitic stainless, electrical, and tool steels. Application-focused chapters link phase transformations, deformation mechanisms, and engineered microstructures to performance, and detail emerging strategies to mitigate degradation, including corrosion, wear, fatigue, and hydrogen damage. Emphasizing the design–processing–property nexus, it offers actionable guidance for researchers and engineers across transportation, energy, defense, and manufacturing.

Key features:

• Describes advances in phase transformation, microstructural features, processing, and properties of various steels used for strategic applications
• Enhances understanding of the development of advanced steels
• Includes applications of advanced steels in high-performance components for next-generation strategic hardware
• Reviews strategic hardware in defence, space, and nuclear applications
• Discusses selective case studies to analyze failures in each chapter.

This book is aimed at researchers and professionals in the fields of steel, metallurgy, and construction engineering.