Rosenhain Centenary Conference - 3. Materials development present and future 3.5 A forward look at some steel developments based on physical metallurgy

Abstract

It is projected that research on the physical metallurgy of steel during the next decade will be directed towards translating the impressive gains in our understanding of materials science into materials engineering. This will require the physical metallurgist to have an awareness of the economic and social environments in which the steel industry operates, the nature and special problems of technology transfer in the industry and the interdependencies of physical, chemical and process metallurgy. These points are illustrated by brief discussions of some areas of materials science of direct interest in the physical metallurgy of steel, some expected developments in low-alloy and in high-strength steels, and by a short review of a few of the more important problems awaiting practical solutions.