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Physical Metallurgy

  • 6th Edition - May 13, 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

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

Volume I:

1 Crystal Structures of Metallic Elements and Compounds
Walter Steurer

2 Electron Theory of Metallic Alloys
Hisazumi Akai, Takashi Miyake

3 Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams
Arthur D. Pelton

4 Metallic Glasses
A.L. Greer

5 Diffusion in Metals and Alloys
Zoltan Balogh-Michels, Guido Schmitz

6 Defects in Metals
Hiroshi Numakura

7 Solidification
William J. Boettinger, Dilip K. Banerjee

8 Diffusional Phase Transformations in the Solid State
W.A. Soffa, David E. Laughlin

9 Martensitic Transformation
Minoru Nishida, Kaneaki Tsuzaki

Volume II:

10 Transmission Electron Microscopy for Physical Metallurgists
Hamish L. Fraser, David W. McComb, Robert E.A. Williams

11 X-Ray Scattering and Neutron Scattering
Eiichiro Matsubara

12 Atom Probe Tomography
Baptiste Gault, Ann Chiaramonti, François Vurpillot

13 Dislocations
David Rodney, Jo€el Bonneville

14 Plastic Deformation of Metals and Alloys
Niels Hansen, Claire Y. Barlow, Tianbo Yu

15 Fatigue of Metals
Pedro Peralta, Campbell Laird

16 Physical Metallurgy of Permanent Magnets
Anton Bolyachkin, Hossein Sepehri-Amin, Kazuhiro Hono

17 Physical Metallurgy of Light Alloys
Jian-Feng Nie

18 Physical Metallurgy of Steels
Francisca G. Caballero

Volume III:

19 Physical Metallurgy of the Nickel-Based Superalloys
R.C. Reed, C.M.F. Rae

20 Recovery and Recrystallization: Phenomena, Physics, Models, Simulation
Dierk Raabe

21 High-Entropy Alloys
Jien-Wei Yeh, An-Chou Yeh, Wei-Lin Hsu

22 Hydrogen in metals
R. Kirchheim, S. Wagner, A. Pundt

23 The Physical Metallurgy of Additive Manufacturing
Sophie Primig, Nima Haghdadi

24 Metallic Biomaterials
Mitsuo Niinomi

25 Computational Physical Metallurgy of Phase-Field Method
Toshiyuki Koyama

26 Probabilistic Materials Informatics
Andreas E. Robertson, Aditya Venkatraman, Adam P. Generale, Surya R. Kalidindi

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 20, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

DL

David E. Laughlin

David E. Laughlin is the ALCOA Professor of Physical Metallurgy Emeritus, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He obtained his BS in Metallurgical Engineering from Drexel University in 1969 and his PhD in Metallurgy and Materials Science from MIT in 1973. He has taught at CMU since 1974. He was the Principal Editor of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions and has coedited eight books. His research has centered on the structure of materials as observed by electron microscopy, phase transformations, and magnetic materials. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed research papers and is a coinventor on 11 US patents. Laughlin is a Fellow of TMS and ASM International.
Affiliations and expertise
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

KH

Kazuhiro Hono

Kazuhiro Hono is President of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan. He joined NIMS in 1995 and has served as a NIMS Fellow, Director of the Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials, and Executive Vice President of NIMS. He obtained his BS from Tohoku University in 1982 and his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1988. His research has centered on the microstructure-property relationships of metallic materials, particularly magnetic materials. He served as Principal Editor of Scripta Materialia and Acta Materialia from 2000 to 2022. Hono is a Fellow of TMS and of the Magnetics Society of Japan.
Affiliations and expertise
National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

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