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Section 1 - Introduction 
An introduction to the topics and examples of typical applications.
Section 2 - Why Make it in Brass?
Explains the very wide variety of combinations of properties unique to brasses that make them the most cost-effective materials to select for the manufacture of a vast range of products.
- Cost-effectiveness
- Low cost manufacturing
- Corrosion resistance
- Machinability.
Section 3 - Choosing the Right Brass
Gives details of the many types of brass available to meet end-user requirements and basic materials selection guidance.
- Brasses for specific manufacturing processes
- Brasses for special applications.
Section 4 - Which Forms of Brass
Describes the extensive range of shapes and sizes available and the way in which they can be made. There is also coverage of the old British standards and material designations and the EN standards and designations which have replaced them.
- Extrusions
- Hot stampings
- Forgings
- Wire sheet and strip
- Tube plate
- Castings
- Ordering information
- Case histories.
Section 5 - How to make it in Brass
Gives details of common forming, fabrication, machining and finishing techniques that can be used in the production of brass components.
- Fabrication and joining
- Forming brass
- Heat treatment
- Joining brasses
- Machining
- Extra surface protection.
Section 6 - Types of Brass
- Details the basic metallurgy of brasses and the useful effects of alloying additions.
- Effects of alloying additions
- Free machining brasses
- High tensile brasses
- Effect of processing on properties
- Effect of zinc content on properties
- Castability
- Available forms and properties.
Section 7 - Brasses for Corrosion Resistance
Provides information to help select materials for use in particularly aggressive environments.
- Corrosion resistant applications of brasses
- Corrosion resistance data
- Types of corrosion.
Section 8 - Brief History of Brass
Shows the early development of the production and usage of brasses from Egyptian, Grecian and Roman times onwards.
Section 9 - Index
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