Steel Metallurgy Book On-Line
 

Hi Folks,

I found this extremely good steel metallurgy book on-line:

http://www.feine-klingen.de/PDFs/verhoeven.pdf

Happy reading and
Cheers
Chris

I second the recomandation. It's relatively easy to read for anyone interested in the subject and reliable to boot.

Thanks, it's great info and easy to absorb.

Emanuel

Good book. Thanks for posting it!

That is the best 'intro to metallurgy' I've read, he gets some pretty obscure concepts across with a clarity that is lacking in most texts on the subject.
Verhoeven has also done a ton of research on wootz, he is the metallurgist who worked for years with the bladesmith Al Pendray to figure out how to make the stuff and also explain the how & why of it.
Some of his papers on damascus can be found on his page at ISU -
http://www.mse.iastate.edu/who-we-ar...verhoeven.html

All the way at the bottom of the page ;)