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Volume 1 Publication Information and Contributors

Properties and Selection: Irons, Steels, and High-Performance Alloys was published in 1990 as Volume 1 of the 10th
Edition Metals Handbook. With the second printing (1993), the series title was changed to ASM Handbook. The Volume
was prepared under the direction of the ASM International Handbook Committee.

Authors and Reviewers

• LAMET UFRGS
• G. Aggen Allegheny Ludlum Steel Division Allegheny Ludlum Corporation
• Frank W. Akstens Industrial Fasteners Institute
• C. Michael Allen Adjelian Allen Rubeli Ltd.
• H.S. Avery Consultant
• P. Babu Caterpillar, Inc.
• Alan M. Bayer Teledyne Vasco
• Felix Bello The WEFA Group
• S.P. Bhat Inland Steel Company
• M. Blair Steel Founders' Society of America
• Bruce Boardman Deere and Company Technical Center
• Kurt W. Boehm Nucor Steel
• Francis W. Boulger Battelle-Columbus Laboratories (retired)
• Greg K. Bouse Howmet Corporation
• John L. Bowles North American Wire Products Corporation
• J.D. Boyd Metallurgical Engineering Department Queen's University
• B.L. Bramfitt Bethlehem Steel Corporation
• Richard W. Bratt Consultant
• W.D. Brentnall Solar Turbines
• C.R. Brinkman Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Edward J. Bueche USS/Kobe Steel Company
• Harold Burrier, Jr. The Timken Company
• Anthony Cammarata Mineral Commodities Division U.S. Bureau of Mines
• A.P. Cantwell LTV Steel Company
• M. Carlucci Lorlea Steels
• Harry Charalambu Carr & Donald Associates
• Joseph B. Conway Mar-Test Inc.
• W. Couts Wyman-Gordon Company
• Wil Danesi Garrett Processing Division Allied-Signal Aerospace Company
• John W. Davis McDonnell Douglas
• R.J. Dawson Deloro Stellite, Inc.
• Terry A. DeBold Carpenter Technology Corporation
• James Dimitrious Pfauter-Maag Cutting Tools
• Douglas V. Doanne Consulting Metallurgist
• Mehmet Doner Allison Gas Turbine Division
• Henry Dormitzer Wyman-Gordon Company
• Allan B. Dove Consultant (deceased)
• Don P.J. Duchesne Adjelian Allen Rubeli Ltd.
• Gary L. Erickson Cannon-Muskegon Corporation
• Walter Facer American Spring Wire Company
• Brownell N. Ferry LTV Steel Company
• F.B. Fletcher Lukens Steel Company
• E.M. Foley Deloro Stellite, Inc.
• R.D. Forrest Division Fonderie Pechinery Electrometallurgie
• James Fox Charter Rolling Division Charter Manufacturing Company, Inc.
• Edwin F. Frederick Bar, Rod and Wire Division Bethlehem Steel Corporation
• James Gialamas USS/Kobe Steel Company
• Jeffery C. Gibeling University of California at Davis
• Wayne Gismondi Union Drawn Steel Co., Ltd.
• R.J. Glodowski Armco, Inc.
• Loren Godfrey Associated Spring Barnes Group, Inc.
• Alan T. Gorton Atlantic Steel Company
• W.G. Granzow Research & Technology Armco, Inc.
• David Gray Teledyne CAE
• Malcolm Gray Microalloying International, Inc.
• Richard B. Gundlach Climax Research Services
• I. Gupta Inland Steel Company
• R.I.L. Guthrie McGill Metals Processing Center McGill University
• P.C. Hagopian Stelco Fastener and Forging Company
• J.M. Hambright Inland Bar and Structural Division Inland Steel Company
• K. Harris Cannon-Muskegon Corporation
• Hans J. Heine Foundry Management & Technology
• W.E. Heitmann Inland Steel Company
• T.A. HeussLTV Steel Bar Division LTV Steel Company
• Thomas Hill Speedsteel of New Jersey, Inc.
• M. Hoetzl Surface Combustion, Inc.
• Peter B. Hopper Milford Products Corporation
• J.P. Hrusovsky The Timken Company
• David Hudok Weirton Steel Corporation
• S. Ibarra Amoco Corporation
• J.E. Indacochea Department of Civil Engineering, Mechanics, and Metallurgy University of
Illinois at Chicago
• Asjad Jalil The Morgan Construction Company
• William J. Jarae Georgetown Steel Corporation
• Lyle R. Jenkins Ductile Iron Society
• J.J. Jonas McGill Metals Processing Center McGill University
• Robert S. Kaplan U.S. Bureau of Mines
• Donald M. Keane LaSalle Steel Company
• William S. Kirk U.S. Bureau of Mines
• S.A. Kish LTV Steel Company
• R.L. Klueh Metals and Ceramics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• G.J.W. Kor The Timken Company
• Charles Kortovich PCC Airfoils
• George Krauss Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center Colorado School of
Mines
• Eugene R. Kuch Gardner Denver Division
• J.A. Laverick The Timken Company
• M.J. Leap The Timken Company
• P.W. Lee The Timken Company
• B.F. Leighton Canadian Drawn Steel Company
• R.W. Leonard USX Corporation
• R.G. Lessard Stelpipe Stelco, Inc.
• S. Liu Center for Welding and Joining Research Colorado School of Mines
• Carl R. Loper, Jr. Materials Science & Engineering Department University of Wisconsin-
Madison
• Donald G. Lordo Townsend Engineered Products
• R.A. Lula Consultant