文档介绍：ENGINEERING
METALLURGY
Parti
APPLIED PHYSICAL METALLURGY
Sixth Edition
RAYMOND A. HIGGINS
(Birm.), ., .
Formerly Senior Lecturer in Metallurgy, West Bromwich College of
Commerce and Technology; sometime Chief Metallurgist, Messrs
Aston Chain and Hook Co., Ltd., Birmingham; and Examiner in
Metallurgy to the Institution of Production Engineers, The City and
Guilds of London Institute, The Union of Lancashire and Cheshire
Institutes and The Union of Educational Institutes.
ARNOLD
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First published in Great Britain 1957
Second edition 1968
Third edition 1971
Fourth edition 1973
Fifth edition 1983
Sixth edition 1993
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Higgins, Raymond A.
Engineering Metallurgy.—Vol. 1: Applied
Physical Metallurgy.—6 Rev. ed.
I. Title
669
ISBN 0 340 56830 5
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PREFACE
To the First Edition
This text-book