Abstract
THE scope of this book is not exactly indicated by its title, as the making of alloys and of castings is included as well as the mechanical working, heat treatment, welding, finishing, and testing of aluminium and the light alloys. On all these matters the author is informative, and his account of them shows practical familiarity with the workshop. Aluminium presents difficulties in machining and finishing to those who are accustomed to other metals, and many useful hints may be gathered from the instructions here given, and from the descriptions of actual operations, mainly in connexion with the motor industry. Theoretical discussions are deliberately excluded, and there are no photomicrographs, but the brief notes on age-hardening and on the ‘modification’ of the alloys of aluminium and silicon are accurate so far as they go.
The Working of Aluminium.
By Edgar T. Painton. Pp. ix + 214 + 20 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1927.) 13s. 6d. net.
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The Working of Aluminium . Nature 122, 309 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122309b0
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