Engineering foundation: The Alloys of Iron and Silicon

In a 457-page book entitled “The Alloys of Iron and Silicon,” a comprehensive review and a critical appraisal of the known facts on the alloys of iron and silicon, and on the effects of silicon on steel and special cast iron, are given. This monograph has been prepared by Alloys of Iron Research, which was organized late in 1929 by The Engineering Foundation, research organization of the 4 national societies of civil, mining and metallurgical, mechanical, and electrical engineers. Alloys of Iron Research was organized after 3 years of preliminary activities, to review and appraise critically all of the research on iron and its alloys reported in the technical literature of the world. The work has progressed to the stage where most of the important journals in English, German, French, and Swedish, from 1892 to date, have been gone over thoroughly, and all data of importance abstracted and classified. The files now contain more than 12,000 critical abstracts, from nearly 5,000 technical papers. These are being reviewed primarily to use as a basis for a series of monographs on alloys of the element iron with 38 of the 92 chemical elements. The first monograph, “The Alloys of Iron and Molybdenum,” was published in December 1932. The second volume of this series, “The Alloys of Iron and Silicon,” now is available. A critical résumé of all data on steel and cast iron containing silicon as an important alloy is included in this book. A summary of the types of alloys discussed in the book follows.