Surface Engineering
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ASM Handbook 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 equipment and instrumentation setup and use.
Print Edition: $285 ASM Members | $380 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $79 ASM Members | $102 Non-Members
ASM Handbook 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.
Print Edition: $285 ASM Members | $380 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $79 ASM Members | $102 Non-Members
ASM Handbook 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.
Print Edition: $285 ASM Members | $380 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $79 ASM Members | $102 Non-Members
Surface Engineering for Corrosion and Wear Resistance
This book provides practical information to help them select the best possible treatment. An entire chapter is devoted to process comparisons, and dozens of useful tables and figures compare surface treatment thickness and hardness ranges; abrasion and corrosion resistance; processing time, temperature, and pressure; costs; distortion tendencies; and other critical process factors and coating characteristics.
Print Edition: $90 ASM Members | $120 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $62 ASM Members | $79 Non-Members
Surface Engineering Handbook and Book Set
Purchase ASM Handbook Volume 5: Surface Engineering and receive Surface Engineering for Corrosion and Wear Resistance for HALF PRICE.
Print Edition: $255 ASM Members | $347 Non-Members
High Pressure Cold Spray: Principles and Applications
This book discusses the basic science and technology of the cold spray process and examines equipment and powder supply. The role of characterization in the development of cold-sprayed coatings is explained.
Print Edition: $165 ASM Members | $220 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $40.04 ASM Members | $51 Non-Members
Materials and Coatings for Medical Devices: Cardiovascular
Combines engineering property data with detailed biological response information, presented in a consistent data sheet format, for the materials and coatings for cardiovascular medical devices. The emphasis is on materials and coatings used in FDA-approved implantable devices.
Print Edition: $255 ASM Members | $340 Non-Members
Protective Coatings for Turbine Blades
This book addresses the problem of surface protection for aircraft engine turbine blades. It is based on the author’s 30+ years of work on the development and application of coatings to protect against oxidation and hot corrosion. It describes and details a methodology for optimizing turbine blade surface protection.
Print Edition: $42 ASM Members | $53 Non-Members
Surface Engineering of Metals: Principles, Equipment, Technologies
Surface Engineering of Metals provides basic definitions of classical and modern surface treatments, addressing mechanisms of formation, microstructure, and properties of surface layers. Part I outlines the fundamentals of surface engineering, presents the history of its development, and proposes a two-category classification of surface layers.
Print Edition: $290
The Surface Treatment and Finishing of Aluminum and Its Alloys, 6th Edition
A comprehensive review and guide to surface engineering–cleaning, finishing, and coating–of aluminum and its alloys. Includes in-depth coverage of anodizing and coloring treatments. Two-volume set plus CD.
Print Edition: $405 ASM Members | $477 Non-Members