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This volume presents a state-of-the-art synthesis of recent advances in steels for strategic applications. It spans carbon and heat-treatable grades; high-strength low-alloy, ultra-high-strength, and advanced high-strength steels; as well as austenitic stainless, electrical, and tool steels. Application-focused chapters link phase transformations, deformation mechanisms, and engineered microstructures to performance, and detail emerging strategies to mitigate degradation, including corrosion, wear, fatigue, and hydrogen damage. Emphasizing the design-processing-property nexus, it offers actionable guidance for researchers and engineers across transportation, energy, defense, and manufacturing.

Key features:

• Describes advances in phase transformation, microstructural features, processing, and properties of various steels used for strategic applications
• Enhances understanding of the development of advanced steels
• Includes applications of advanced steels in high-performance components for next-generation strategic hardware
• Reviews strategic hardware in defence, space, and nuclear applications
• Discusses selective case studies to analyze failures in each chapter.

This book is aimed at researchers and professionals in the fields of steel, metallurgy, and construction engineering.