6542
Metals Handbook Desk Edition, 2nd edition
Edited by: Joseph R. Davis Hardbound; Publisher: ASM; Publication Date: 1998; ISBN 0-87170-654-7; 1521 pages
$230.00

• 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

We've taken ASM's best-selling book and made it even better The original Desk Edition was published in 1984, but the new Second Edition contains about 60% new and improved information published in ASM Handbooks over the past 14 years -- making this the definitive Desk Edition.

What's New
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