Best Sellers
Explore ASM's best-selling books for industry professionals and materials experts.
Top Best Sellers
Understanding the Basics
The Understanding the Basics Collection is an 8-volume Digital Library-exclusive set that provides comprehensive coverage of critical topics in metallurgy: Alloying, Corrosion, Fatigue and Fracture, Inspection of Metals, Joining, Lightweight Materials, Metals Fabrication, Phase Diagrams.
DIGITAL ONLY COLLECTION!
Digital Library Subscription: $235 ASM Members | $260 Non-Members
Castings Engineering Guides, Three-Book Set
This three-book set offers product-process development and problem solving of aluminum and iron and steel castings in a variety of industries, in addition to coverage of engineering details of casting equipment. The books also offer structured approaches to linking functionality and manufacturability—an invaluable resource for product designers, process engineers, and engineering students.
Includes Iron and Steel Castings Engineering Guide (2021), Aluminum Castings Engineering Guide (2018), and Casting Equipment Engineering Guide (2024).
Print Edition: $460 ASM Members | $650 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $49 / year
Gearbox Vibrations: Analysis and Reduction
This book familiarizes readers with the causes and effects of vibration in turbine-driven gearboxes and how to troubleshoot and remedy problems in the field and in design. It covers both theory and practice and presents a wide range of examples, explaining how vibration problems arise in power-generating equipment and how they are evaluated, quantified, and resolved.
Print Edition: $149 ASM Members | $199 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $79 / year
Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist, Second Edition
The completely revised Second Edition of Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist provides a solid understanding of the basic principles and current practices of metallurgy. The new edition has been extensively updated with broader coverage of topics, new and improved illustrations, and more explanation of basic concepts. It is a “must-have” ready reference on metallurgy!
Print Edition: $165 ASM Members | $220 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $51 / year
Best Selling STEELS
Stainless Steels for Designer Engineers
This book gives engineers and designers a valuable guide on stainless steels and how to use them. Easy to read, this helpful technical guide is for anyone who designs or builds with stainless steels.
Print Edition: $155 ASM Members | $205 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $51 / year
Steels: Processing, Structure, and Performance, Second Edition
In the second edition of this best-selling book, new information and references are integrated into chapters. Emphasis remains on processing, alloying, microstructure, deformation, fracture and properties of major steel types ranging from low-carbon sheet steels, pearlitic rail and wire steels, to quench and tempered medium- and high-carbon martensitic steels.
Print Edition: $200 ASM Members | $265 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $79 / year
Iron and Steel Castings Engineering Guide
This engineering guide, an accompanying guide to Aluminum Castings Engineering Guide (ASM International, 2018), explains the interactions of product design (for function and manufacturability), materials engineering (for the best choice of alloy and microstructure), and process engineering practices (to achieve the properties and integrity of a component at the most comprehensive cost).
Print Edition: $165 ASM Members | $220 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $79 / year
Steel Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist
Explains the metallurgy of steel and its heat treatment for non-metallurgists, starting with the basics and then gradually introducing more complex concepts involved in heat treatment of most types of steel.
Print Edition: $100 ASM Members | $135 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $35 / year
Best Selling ALUMINUM ALLOYS
Aluminum: Technology, Industry, and Applications
This resourceful and practical book includes chapters on mining and smelting, ingot and continuous casting, shape casting, hot and cold rolling, extrusion and drawing, forging, and secondary operations. It discusses the factors involved in the selection of product forms, alloy compositions, and temper designations with emphasis on manufacturability, component performance, sustainability, and cost.
Print Edition: $165 ASM Members | $220 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $79 / year
Aluminum Castings Engineering Guide
This practical guide to product and process engineering of various aluminum castings emphasizes process and material characteristics; product-process-alloy integration; manufacturing aspects of aluminum casting; product design features; tooling design, feeding and gating design; product quality needs and specifications; product launches; and successful conversions of aluminum from steel and iron.
Print Edition: $180 ASM Members | $240 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $79 / year
Best Selling MICROELECTRONICS
Microelectronics Failure Analysis Desk Reference, Seventh Edition
This new edition will help engineers improve their ability to verify, isolate, uncover, and identify the root cause of failures. Prepared by a team of experts, this updated reference offers the latest information on advanced failure analysis tools and techniques, illustrated with numerous real-life examples.
Print Edition: $190 ASM Members | $250 Non-Members
Best Selling FAILURE ANALYSIS
Handbook of Case Histories in Failure Analysis Volume 3
Handbook of Case Histories in Failure Analysis, Volume 3 examines more than 100 cases of failure and the process by which they were analyzed, diagnosed, and resolved. Provides expert analysis and insight on a variety of materials, failure modes, root causes, and analytical techniques. Includes sections dedicated to specific components, industries, and other factors.
Print Edition: $175 ASM Members | $230 Non-Members
Understanding How Components Fail, Third Edition
The Understanding the Basics Collection is an 8-volume Digital Library-exclusive set that provides comprehensive coverage of critical topics in metallurgy: Alloying, Corrosion, Fatigue and Fracture, Inspection of Metals, Joining, Lightweight Materials, Metals Fabrication, Phase Diagrams.
Print Edition: $165 ASM Members | $220 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $51 / year
Best Selling METALLOGRAPHY AND CHARACTERIZATION
Metallography of Steels: Interpretation of Structure and the Effects of Processing
This book is a combination of a metallographic atlas for steels and cast irons and an introductory textbook covering the fundamentals of phase transformations and heat treatment of these materials. Every important stage of processing, from casting to cold working is clearly discussed and copiously illustrated with metallographs that show the obtained structures, both desired and those achieved when deviations occur. A valuable companion even for experienced steel practitioners.
Print Edition: $190 ASM Members | $250 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $79 / year
Best Selling HEAT TREATING
Practical Heat Treating: Basic Principles
This book describes the basic principles of heat-treating technology in clear, concise, and practical terms for students, emerging professionals, production personnel, and manufacturing or design engineers. It is an excellent resource and introductory guide on the practical “whys and therefore” of heat treatment—including the tips and useful look-up information of a perennial reference book.
Print Edition: $180 ASM Members | $240 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $79 / year
Best Selling CORROSION
Tribomaterials: Properties and Selection for Friction, Wear, and Erosion Applications
This book is intended to help readers reduce the unwanted costs and ramifications of friction, wear, and erosion in tribosytems by offering engineering material suggestions that practicing material engineers have found to work in many applications based on more than 40 years of research and testing of tribomaterials.
Print Edition: $180 ASM Members | $240 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $51 / year
Corrosion: Understanding the Basics
This book presents a practical “how to” approach to understanding and solving the problems of corrosion of structural materials. Although it is written mainly for those having a limited technical background in corrosion, it also provides more experienced engineers with a useful overview of the principles of corrosion and can be used as a general guide for developing a corrosion-control program.
Print Edition: $190 ASM Members | $250 Non-Members
Digital Library Subscription: $79 / year