Metals Handbook Desk Edition

• The "best" of the ASM Handbook in a single volume -- if you only own one book on metals and their alloys, this is it The definitive Desk Edition -- a complete revision of ASM's perennial best seller, packed with new and updated information Highly practical (avoids theoretical content), assumes minimal prior knowledge

• 75th Anniversary Edition of ASM's best-known reference

What's New
You won't find these sections in any other reference book. . .
NEW Structure/Property Relationships in Irons and Steels

• Role of microstructure on properties (including yield strength, toughness, and hardness) of ferrous alloys Provides both theoretical and practical coverage

• Dozens of high-quality micrographs

NEW Influence of Steelmaking Practice on Properties

• State-of-the-art coverage of modern steelmaking practice How to reduce gas content in steels, improve cleanliness, eliminate porosity and segregation, enhance hot workability, and improve room-temperature and elevated-temperature mechanical properties

• Recent developments in ingot and continuous casting and hot-rolling

NEW Advanced Materials

• Processing of metal-matrix composites Processing of aluminum-, titanium-, and magnesium-matrix composites Intermetallics for structural and nonstructural applications High-temperature structural intermetallics (nickel-, iron-, and titanium-aluminides)

• Intermetallic compounds for magnetic and superconducting applications

NEW Processing Methods

• Lost-foam casting Isorthermal and hot-die forging Precision forging Rotary forging Superplastic forming Metal injection molding of metal powders Warm compaction powder metallurgy process

• New quenching methodologies

NEW Materials Characterization

• Optical emission spectroscopy X-ray diffraction Electron microscopy Scanning auger microanalysis Typical uses and applications Operating principles (simplified for users with limited knowledge of chemistry and physics) Sample requirements Limitations

• Capabilities of related techniques

NEW Testing

• Mechanical testing methods Wear testing Stress-corrosion cracking testing Hydrogen damage testing Fracture mechanics testing Principles of test selection and use

• Standard and nonstandard test methods

What's Updated+
More pages on Design Considerations

• Reliability in design Meeting performance specifications Product liability considerations Risk and hazard analysis Designing to codes and standards

• Safety and environmental aspects

More pages on the Materials Selection Process

• Relationship of materials selection to design Performance characteristics of materials (including properties, fabricability, and cost) Relationships between materials selection and processing and manufacturing

• Numerous practical examples

More pages of Property Data

• Fills key gaps from the previous edition

• Adds mechanical, physical, and corrosion data for ferrous materials, including: austempered ductile irons and newly developed automotive steels (such as bake hardening, interstitial-free, and dual-phase steels), high-fracture-toughness steels, and stainless steels, as well as superalloys, nonferrous alloys, and materials used for special-purpose applications

More pages on Practical Use of Phase Diagrams

• How the various areas (fields) in a phase diagram are controlled by the thermodynamic principles and properties of the phases that make up the system

• Emphasizes the more commercially important binary and ternary systems

More pages on Statistical Analysis and Quality Control

• Written specifically for the layman

• How statistical methods can optimize design parameters or important metallurgical processing

More pages on Recycling and Life-Cycle Analysis

• Advances in recycling of iron and steel scrap Advances in processing of stainless steel and superalloy scrap Recycling of aluminum and other nonferrous alloys (including batteries and electronic scrap)

• Designing for ease of recycling

Contents:

• General Information Irons, Steels and High-Performance Alloys Nonferrous Alloys and Special Purpose Materials Processing

• Testing, Inspection, Characterization and Quality Control.