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The Material Steel

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Abstract

Steels always fascinate with their many, often also extraordinary properties, with a great potential for application and increasing production worldwide.

  • What characterizes the material steel?

  • How are steels classified or differentiated?

  • How are steels composed?

  • What properties do steels have and how can they be influenced?

  • Where are steels mainly used?

For this purpose, an orientation should be given with explanations of the basics of the material steel, of the possibilities of classifying steels as well as with short portraits of selected steel grades.

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    Joachim Schlegel

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Schlegel, J. (2023). The Material Steel. In: The World of Steel. Springer, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39733-3_2

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