Damascus and pattern-welded steels forging blades since the iron age

Madeleine Durand-Charre - Collection Chimie-Matériaux

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Steels are a class of materials with multiple and complicated transformations; this is true even for steels of the basic cutlery industry. A damascus steel is a fascinating subject to study, rich in multiple facets, that appears in a ¿rst approach as a composite material artistically exploited. Damacus steel was developed in the ¿rst millennium AD in India or Sri-Lanka. Its reputation is related to its exceptional properties and to the moire pattern. A similar damask pattern could be obtained by forge-welding giving rise to controversies. Recent ¿ndings allow a better understanding of this pattern formation. This book presents ¿rstly, observations of ancient blade samples examined with modern technologies such as electron microscopy. The features of many typical swords from different periods are discussed: Celtic, Merovingian, Viking and oriental wootz swords, Persian shamshirs, Japanese katana, rapiers etc. In the second part, microstructural observations at different levels of magni¿cation are displayed and their interpretation is discussed in detail, thus revealing the secret of sophisticated forgings. One chapter is devoted to introducing the main transformations undergone by these steels during the forging processes. The book is intended for all those people interested in the history of science and more speci¿cally to the metallurgists, to the archaeologists and all the researchers confronted with the problems of the expertise of the vestiges, to the blacksmiths, and to the collectors of valuable artistic blades. Madeleine Durand-Charre has taught structural metallurgy at the Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble and at the University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble. Her research work concerned microstructure formation and determination of phase equilibria. She investigated complex alloys such as superalloys and steels. Her work on vanadium cast irons was awarded the Vanadium Shield in 1989 from the Institute of Metals. She is author of several books and articles in metallurgy.

L'auteur - Madeleine Durand-Charre

Madeleine Durand-Charre est Docteur es Science de l'Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble où elle a enseigné la métallurgie. Elle a publié deux monographies, une sur les superalliages en 1997 intitulée The microstructure of superalloys (Gordon and Breach) et une sur les aciers en 2003 intitulée La microstructure des aciers et des fontes (SIRPE, EDP). Ce nouveau livre est aussi focalisé sur l'exploitation raisonnée des images macro/microscopiques.

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	PAPIER	NUMERIQUE
Éditeur(s)	EDP Sciences
Auteur(s)	Madeleine Durand-Charre
Collection	Chimie-Matériaux
Parution	30/07/2014	01/05/2014
Nb. de pages	216	216
Format	15.8 x 23.9	-
Couverture	Broché	-
Poids	516g	-
Contenu	-	PDF
EAN13	9782759811731	9782759816354