ASM Handbooks
The World’s Best and Most Comprehensive Materials Reference Guides
Volume 1: Properties and Selection: Irons, Steels, and High-Performance Alloys
Volume 1 addresses the selection and application of ferrous metals and alloys, including cast irons, carbon and low-alloy steels, tool steels, stainless steels, and nickel and cobalt-base superalloys. As the lead volume in the Handbook series, it lays the groundwork for understanding the hierarchical nature of metals and how to leverage the underlying process, structure, property, performance relationships that define them.
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Volume 1A: Cast Iron Science and Technology
Volume 1A: Cast Iron Science and Technology is an in-depth and comprehensive reference for those who research, develop, process, make, use, analyze, or specify cast irons. Doru M. Stefanescu, Professor Emeritus from The University of Alabama and The Ohio State University, has gathered an international group of leading innovators, researchers, and practitioners in the cast iron field to create an invaluable reference for both practitioners and researchers.
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Volume 2: Properties and Selection: Nonferrous Alloys and Special Purpose Materials
Volume 2 is a comprehensive and authoritative single-volume reference book on nonferrous metals and alloys. Extensive coverage on aluminum, titanium and copper. rovides detailed information on major alloy groups, with particular emphasis on aluminum, titanium, copper, and magnesium. New topics include recycling, superconductors, metal-matrix composites, and intermetallics.
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Volume 2A: Aluminum Science and Technology
Volume 2A is a practical guide to aluminum and its engineering applications. It begins with a review of temper designations and product forms and the underlying physical metallurgy of aluminum alloys. It then examines manufacturing practices and techniques, focusing in critical areas such as casting, metalworking, heat treating, machining and finishing, surface treatment, and joining.
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Volume 2B: Properties and Selection of Aluminum Alloys
Volume 2B covers the metallurgy, processing, fabrication, properties, and performance of aluminum alloys. The articles in the first section of the volume provide details on the selection of aluminum alloys to meet specific design and performance criteria. The next section presents in-depth datasheets for standard grades of wrought and cast aluminum alloys.
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Volume 3: Alloy Phase Diagrams
Volume 3 provides a complete explanation of phase diagrams and their significance and covers solid solutions; thermodynamics; isomorphous, eutectic, peritectic, and monotectic alloy systems; solid-state transformations; and intermediate phases. Users of this volume will gain a better understanding of phase diagram construction and alloy system interactions while having a valuable resource to aid in their research and engineering pursuits.
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Volume 4A: Steel Heat Treating Fundamentals and Processes
Volume 4A provides an excellent foundation on the modern methods of steel heat treating for new or experienced practitioners. Major topics include: the physical metallurgy of steel heat treatment, fundamentals and practical aspects of steel hardness and hardenability, quenching, annealing, tempering, austempering and martempering.
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Volume 4B: Steel Heat Treating Technologies
Volume 4B covers a variety of topics associated with steel heat treating, including modeling and simulation, process control, furnace types, common heat treating problems, and troubleshooting and prevention techniques. Building on the material presented in Volume 4A, Steel Heat Treating Fundamentals and Processes, it delves into the complexities of part distortion, residual stress, and cracking, explaining why it occurs in treated steel parts and how to predict, measure, and minimize its damaging effects.
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Volume 4C: Induction Heating and Heat Treatment
Volume 4C is a comprehensive guide to electromagnetic induction and how to employ it in heat treating, metalworking, and materials manufacturing. Using diagrams, photos, and data plots, the volume reveals the science behind induction heating processes such as induction hardening, tempering, stress relieving, melting, brazing, soldering, and the preheating of metals and alloys prior to working.
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Volume 4D: Heat Treating of Irons and Steels
Volume 4D is a practical guide to heat treating irons and steels, and is particularly helpful in the context of selecting materials and determining part geometries and process plans. Filled with instructional information and data, it examines the effect of heat treating on the structure, properties, and performance potential of cast iron, carbon and low-alloy steels, tool steels, stainless steels, bearing steels, and gear steels.
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Volume 4E: Heat Treating of Nonferrous Alloys
Volume 4E examines the heat treating process as it applies to nonferrous metals and alloys. It covers aluminum, copper, nickel, and titanium in detail, describing accepted heat treating practices and how they drive metallurgical transformations that ultimately determine material properties.
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Volume 4F: Quenchants and Quenching Technology
Volume 4E examines the heat treating process as it applies to nonferrous metals and alloys. It covers aluminum, copper, nickel, and titanium in detail, describing accepted heat treating practices and how they drive metallurgical transformations that ultimately determine material properties.
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Volume 5: Surface Engineering
Volume 5 provides application-oriented information on surface engineering for a wide range of materials, topographies, and length scales. It addresses surface cleaning and preparation; coating, plating, and deposition processes; testing and characterization; and proper setup and use of equipment and instrumentation.
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Volume 5A: Thermal Spray Technology
Volume 5A provides an introduction to thermal spray technology including plasma spray, high velocity oxy-fuel, and detonation gun deposition. It explains how each process works and the types of coating materials typically used. This book is an excellent guidebook for those new to thermal spray.
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Volume 5B: Protective Organic Coatings
Volume 5B addresses a need for comprehensive information on organic coatings, including coating materials, surface preparation, application processes, industrial uses, and coating evaluation and analysis methods. This volume is essential for industrial coating users, specifiers, and contractors.
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Volume 6: Welding, Brazing and Soldering
Volume 6 is the most comprehensive reference book ever produced on the major joining technologies and their applications to engineered materials. With over 500 illustrations and 400 tables, this volume includes practical advice on consumable selection and procedure development, as well as joining fundamentals.
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Volume 6A: Welding Fundamentals and Processes
Volume 6A contains an extensive amount of in-depth information on welding and welding processes. It covers the entire spectrum of welding technologies from the workhorse methods of arc and resistance welding to some of the more specialized techniques such as fusion, solid-state, friction stir, laser, and electron-beam welding.
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Volume 7: Powder Metallurgy
Volume 7 covers the basic principles and techniques of powder metallurgy (PM) as it applies to specific metal/alloy families. It addresses powder manufacturing and characterization along with compaction, sintering, and full density processing. It also provides information on metal injection molding and conventional press and sinter powder metallurgy as well as materials and processes in current use.
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Volume 8: Mechanical Testing and Evaluation
Volume 8 describes the mechanical behavior of metals, composites, ceramics, and polymers and how it translates to measurable properties that can be used in product design and manufacturing. It explains how to acquire and analyze property data from a wide range of tests, including tension, compression, bend, and shear tests, micro and macro-scale hardness tests, and tests for friction and wear.
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Volume 9: Metallography and Microstructures
Volume 9 is a comprehensive guide to metallography and its application in product design and manufacturing. It provides detailed information on a wide range of metallographic techniques and how to interpret the microstructure and phase constituents commonly found in metals and alloys used throughout industry.
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Volume 10: Materials Characterization
Volume 10 provides detailed technical information that will enable readers to select and use analytical techniques that are appropriate for their problem. Each article describing a characterization technique begins with an overview of the method in simplified terms and lists common applications as well as limitations.
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Volume 11: Failure Analysis and Prevention
Volume 11 is a valuable resource for failure analysts, engineers, and technical personnel who are looking to identify the root cause(s) of failures and to prevent future failures. It contains divisions devoted to the practice of failure analysis, tools and techniques, fatigue and fracture, environmental and corrosion-related failures, wear failures, and distortion.
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Volume 11A: Analysis and Prevention of Component and Equipment Failures
Volume 11A provides information and insights on the factors that determine the useful service life of engineering components and the likely timing and mode of failure. It addresses nearly every stage of the product lifecycle from materials selection and design to manufacturing, operation, maintenance, and repair.
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Volume 11B: Characterization and Failure Analysis of Plastics
Volume 11B serves as a reference and guide to help engineers determine the causes of failure in plastic components and make corrective adjustments through design and manufacturing modifications. It contains seven major divisions, covering polymer science and processing, material selection and design, chemical, thermal, and physical analysis, mechanical behavior and testing, degradation mechanisms, systematic failure analysis, and life assessment and optimization.
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Volume 12: Fractography (2024 Edition)
Volume 12 contains substantially expanded coverage of the subject of fractography—in the form of 17 entirely new material-specific, text-based articles. It includes in-depth information on the types and appearances of fracture, visual examination and imaging methods, quantitative fractography, surface profiling, and fractal analysis.
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Volume 13A: Corrosion: Fundamentals, Testing, and Protection
Volume 13A is a comprehensive reference on corrosion, its causes, and cures. It describes the fundamental electrochemistry of corrosion and the thermodynamic and kinetic mechanisms that drive the corrosion process.
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Volume 13B: Corrosion: Materials
Volume 13B provides detailed information on the corrosion performance of metals and alloys, along with selection and application considerations for specific materials and corrosive environments. It explains how metals and nonmetals are affected by various elements and how to protect them with thermal spray coatings, electroplated materials, cladding, and other methods.
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Volume 13C: Corrosion: Environments and Industries
Volume 13C examines the process of corrosion and its effects in various industries, environments, and applications. It provides detailed explanations of charge transfer reactions that occur in fresh water, marine, underground, and military environments and its economic and human impact on fossil fuel and nuclear power, land and air transportation, mining and metal processing, pulp and paper production, medical, chemical, and other industries.
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Volume 14A: Metalworking: Bulk Forming
Volume 14A is the first of two volumes covering the distinct processes and industries of bulk working and sheet forming. It provides essential technical information on the process-design relationships needed to select and control metalworking operations that produce shapes from forging, extrusion, drawing, and rolling operations.
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Volume 14B: Metalworking: Sheet Forming
Volume 14B on sheet forming is the second of two volumes on metalworking technology. This volume addresses all methods of sheet metal fabrication technologies, selection of equipment and die materials, specification of forming practices for specific alloys, and new techniques for process design and control.
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Volume 15: Casting
Volume 15 is a comprehensive reference on the principles and practice of metal casting, covering the fundamentals, process selection and parameters, and materials performance. It addresses molten metal processing, solidification behavior, molding, foundry practice, and casting properties.
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Volume 16: Machining
Volume 16 covers machining technologies, including fundamentals, detailed descriptions of specific machining and grinding processes, guidelines for proper selection of cutting tool materials and cutting fluids, and recommendations for improved machining productivity and efficiency.
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Volume 17: Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials
Volume 17 describes the tools and techniques used in nondestructive evaluation and what they reveal about the integrity and operating potential of engineered materials and components. It covers the entire spectrum of sensing technologies from visible light inspection to ultrasonic, thermal, electromagnetic, and radiographic imaging.
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Volume 18: Friction, Lubrication, and Wear Technology
Volume 18 addresses friction and wear from a systems perspective, while providing a detailed understanding of why it occurs and how to control it. It explains the basic theory of friction and wear, and offers valuable insight on the forces, mechanisms, and interactions that are involved.
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Volume 19: Fatigue and Fracture
Volume 19 is a resource for basic concepts, alloy property data, and the testing and analysis methods used to characterize fatigue and fracture behavior of structural materials. Contents include fatigue mechanisms, crack growth and testing; fatigue strength prediction and analysis; fracture mechanics, damage tolerance, and life assessment; environmental effects; and fatigue and fracture resistance of ferrous, nonferrous, and nonmetallic structural materials.
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Volume 20: Materials Selection and Design
Volume 20 provides insights on how to improve products and reduce costs by leveraging materials technology in the context of engineering design. It begins with a review of best design practices, identifying roles and responsibilities, workflows and tools, and considerations such as industry standards and codes, environmental regulations, liability, and risk.
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Volume 21: Composites
Volume 21 provides a working knowledge of the capabilities and applications of commercially significant composites, including metal-matrix composites, ceramic-matrix composites, and polymer and organic-matrix types. It covers constituent materials, design considerations, and manufacturing processes.
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Volume 22A: Fundamentals of Modeling for Metals Processing
Volume 22A provides a thorough review of computational modeling and its application in the development of alloys and associated processing techniques. It describes the basic concepts of modeling and simulation and accepted practices in the use of finite elements, computational fluid dynamics, mechanistic and phenomenological modeling, and statistical approaches.
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Volume 22B: Metals Process Simulation
Volume 22B describes the methods, models, and tools used to simulate manufacturing processes and predict the microstructure and mechanical properties of metals and metal parts. It covers a wide range of processes from melting, casting, and solidification to heat treating, welding, and machining.
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Volume 23: Materials for Medical Devices
Volume 23 focuses on the use of materials in medical and dental applications, examining materials selection, design, and manufacturing in light of the principles of biocompatibility and the chemical and mechanical interactions that affect it. It provides detailed information on chemical and mechanically assisted corrosion, corrosion fatigue, and potential complications stemming from corrosion byproducts.
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Volume 23A: Additive Manufacturing in Biomedical Applications
Volume 23A provides a comprehensive review of established and emerging 3D printing and bioprinting approaches for biomedical applications, and expansive coverage of various feedstock materials for 3D printing. The Volume includes articles on 3D printing and bioprinting of surgical models, surgical implants, and other medical devices.
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Volume 24: Additive Manufacturing Processes
Volume 24 provides information on the metals, ceramics, and polymers used in additive manufacturing (AM) and how they respond to the transformative forces and energies applied over the course of production. It covers all commercially relevant processes including vat polymerization, material jetting, powder bed fusion, directed energy deposition, binder jetting, material extrusion, and sheet lamination.
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Metals Handbook® Desk Edition, 2nd Edition
This volume is a comprehensive reference source on the properties, selection, processing, testing, and characterization of metals and their alloys. Compiled principally from the ASM Handbook series, coverage is organized into five major parts. The first part features a collection of engineering property data and guidance on the structure and properties of metallic materials.
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Brazing Handbook, 5th Edition (AWS)
The AWS Brazing Handbook, 5th Edition provides a comprehensive, organized survey of the basics of brazing, processes, and applications. It addresses the fundamentals of brazing, brazement design, brazing filler metals and fluxes, safety and health, and many other topics. Includes new chapters on induction brazing and diamond brazing.
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