Updated hard materials volume maintains the pedigree

Updated hard materials maintains the pedigree World Lhvctory and Hundbook qf Hwdnwtals und Hurd Muterials (6th edition) ; K. J.A. Brookes; in ternutioml Carbide Data (1996); ISBN: 0-950899.5-4-Z; 750 pages; dt18.5 (UK), US$345 (non-l/K). KEN Brooke’s

abrasives. The second

the

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ready firmly established

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reference the ‘bible’, an

the volume

essential

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cutting edition

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Brookes’

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book

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224 pages. This latest

volume,

which

coincides

with the centenary of

the discovery bide,

appropriately of tungsten

contains

tion,

car-

a considerable

chemical

composi-

grain

various

size; den-

mechanical

IS0 codes and coat-

ing data,

as well

as thermal, properties.

Much of this information then

cross-referenced to

dexed

offer

is

and in-

the

reader

a

valuable map through the maze of materials in this area. The buyer’s rapid

guide permits

worldwide

the

selection

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ceramics

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sources of not only hardmetals,

materials

services.

Other

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useful features

include

alpha-

superhard

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and geographic

to

the

materials,

polycrystalline

such

diamond

as and

cubic boron nitride.

all

in two distinct the handbook,

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tory, production materials used

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cutting

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techniques;

men-

references

coverage

hardmetals;

erties;

indices

to grades and trade names.

hard

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750 pages. The increase reflects both the expansion of interest the

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Tooling 97, in a continuing series of biennial conferences, will present 24 speakers from industry and academia covering a range of topics including: tool design developments; coolant delivery and performance; micromachining; and tool material advances. Professor Milton C. Shaw of Arizona State University, considered one of the pioneers of cutting technology, will provide one of two keynote lectures, lMechanics of Metal Cutting Using Single Point Tools’. The second keynote speaker, Professor Robert 0. Warrington of Louisiana Technical University will disthe second

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