Are this metallurgy article too difficult to understand?

Most peofessional papers are written like that.

I wish they translated them into inch-pounds for Americans.

I picked up "Metallurgy for the non-Metallurgist" in hardcover. It seems to break it down into elementary principles but it is still fairly heavy reading.
 
Very similar to Ron's suggestion (if it's Verhoeven book) is his other book "Steel Metallurgy for Bladesmiths and Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel" which I found very useful and I think is well written and 'eases into' the subject matter with sufficient explanations.
 
Wolf_HR said:
(if it's Verhoeven book) is his other book "Steel Metallurgy for Bladesmiths and Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel".
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That is the author. I will have to look for his other book now too. Thank you.
 
I understand the metallurgy ,of course, but I do have to struggle through the Polish !!!
 
The "simplified" Verhoeven material is not only very interesting, but it even makes some pretty esoteric stuff like alternative methods for getting lower bainitic structure relatively understandable to the common metal pounder.
 
Wolf_HR said:
Very similar to Ron's suggestion (if it's Verhoeven book) is his other book "Steel Metallurgy for Bladesmiths and Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel" which I found very useful and I think is well written and 'eases into' the subject matter with sufficient explanations.
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Yeah, here's a PDF of that (someone posted it here recently):

http://www.hybridburners.com/documents/verhoeven.pdf

I found it easy reading/understanding (up to a point at least) but I took quite a bit of chemistry in college. If you don't have any chemistry background then this will be more of a stretch.
 
Like anything in life the learning curve is much easier if you progress in the crawl, walk, run fashion. Having a good base knowledge helps with the more advanced stuff. After all you wouldn't expect to excel at calculus if your algebra sucks and you won't get very far with algebra without basic arithmetic. Can you do it? Absolutely, but you'll get there quicker starting at the basics and have a much greater understanding.
 
mete said:
I understand the metallurgy ,of course, but I do have to struggle through the Polish !!!
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Technical papers = hard
Technical papers in Polish = does not compute! Lol

OP, read, re-read, re-re-read and do it over again until it sticks. It's like learning what a Mol is, or logrithrims. Just take it at face value for a while, until the underlying process and principles make sense. It will come, but it takes time and earnest work. And apparently a more than working knowledge of Polish in some cases......
 
mete said:
I understand the metallurgy ,of course, but I do have to struggle through the Polish !!!
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where does your struggle with Polish comes from? What materials/books are you interested in?
 
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