Although there are a limited number of reference books on aluminum metallurgy, there is a significant and continuing need for a text that also addresses the physical metallurgy of aluminum and its alloys and the processing of those alloys that will be of long-term value to metallurgical engineers and designers. In addition, a number of vitally important technologies are often covered in a cursory manner or not at all, such as quenching, property prediction, residual stresses (sources and measurement), heat treating, superplastic forming, chemical milling, and surface engineering