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Volume 4F: Quenchants and Quenching Technology
 Volume 4F: Quenchants and Quenching Technology

As a comprehensive update of the best-selling title Handbook of Quenchants and Quenching Technology (ASM International, 1993), this volume reviews the metallurgy of irons and steels and the changes that occur in response to controlled heating and cooling. It explains how cooling curve data is acquired and used in the development of quenching processes and the selection of quenchants.

Print Edition: $285 ASM Member | $380 Non-Member

Digital Library Subscription: $79 ASM Member | $102 Non-Member

Volume 12: Fractography (2024 Edition)
Volume 12: Fractography (2024 Edition)

This revised ASM Handbook 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 fractures, visual examination and imaging methods, quantitative fractography, surface profiling, and fractal analysis. 

Print Edition: $285 ASM Member | $380 Non-Member

Digital Library Subscription: $78.54 ASM Member | $102 Non-Member

Volume 24A: Additive Manufacturing Design and Applications
Volume 24A: Additive Manufacturing Design and Applications
This book is a companion to Volume 24 and provides a comprehensive review of additive manufacturing (AM) design fundamentals and applications. The primary focus of the Volume is on metallic systems with limited emphasis on polymers and ceramics where applicable. 
Print Edition: $285 ASM Member | $380 Non-Member

Digital Library Subscription: $79 ASM Member | $102 Non-Member

Volume 5: Surface Engineering
Volume 5: Surface Engineering

This Surface Engineering handbook provides detailed information on surface cleaning, finishing and coating through published articles on testing of coatings and thin films, environmental concerns, and surface engineering of nonmetallic structural materials. Expanded analysis of advanced processes such as chemical and physical vapor deposition and diffusion coatings. 

Print Edition: $285 ASM Member | $380 Non-Member

Digital Library Subscription: $79 ASM Member | $102 Non-Member

Casting Equipment Engineering Guide
Casting Equipment Engineering Guide

Casting Equipment Engineering Guide is an essential resource covering engineering details of casting equipment, its design features, applications, capabilities, and selection guidelines. This guide is written for mechanical engineers, practicing engineers, engineering students, and metallurgists specializing in casting technology.

Print Edition: $165 ASM Member | $220 Non-Member

Digital Library Subscription: $79 / year 

Gearbox Vibrations: Analysis and Reduction
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 Member | $199 Non-Member

Digital Library Subscription: $49 / year

Practical Heat Treating: Processes and Practices
Practical Heat Treating: Processes and Practices

This book covers processes, equipment, and the management of heat treating systems and operations. The book covers surface hardening of steel, carburizing, carbonitriding, nitriding, and ferritic nitrocarburizing. A glossary of heat treating terms is also included in the book.

Print Edition: $180 ASM Member | $240 Non-Member

Digital Library Subscription: $79 / year

Schey’s Tribology in Metalworking: Friction, Lubrication, and Wear
Schey’s Tribology in Metalworking: Friction, Lubrication, and Wear

This book is an update to the seminal text Tribology in Metalworking by John Schey, originally published by ASM International in 1983. The 1983 first edition served as a recognized essential resource for researchers in the fields of manufacturing tribology and metal forming for many decades. This 2023 update preserves the essential information in that first edition but provides a thorough update, including a description of the significant advances in tribological research and detailed information for every metal forming process.

Print Edition: $195 ASM Member | $260 Non-Member

Digital Library Subscription: $79 / year

NEW Digital Exclusives
Corrosion Inhibitors: Key Topics in Materials Science and Engineering
Corrosion Inhibitors: Key Topics in Materials Science and Engineering

Corrosion Inhibitors: Key Topics in Materials Science and Engineering gives a basic understanding of corrosion inhibiting additives and treatments. It reviews the different types of corrosion inhibitors in use, the engineering considerations involved in their selection, and the tools and techniques that have been developed for measuring corrosion inhibitor efficiency.

Digital Library Subscription: $10 / year
Phase Diagrams: Key Topics in Materials Science and Engineering

Phase Diagrams: Key Topics in Materials Science and Engineering provides an introduction to alloy phase diagrams and their use.  It describes how phase diagrams are constructed and demonstrates widely used methods for determining phase compositions, phase fractions, and microstructure.

Digital Library Subscription: $10 / year
Coming Soon
ASM Handbook, Volume 12A: Atlas of Fractography

Volume 12A (a companion to Volume 12, Fractography) is an atlas comprised of more than 1,700 fractographs divided into metallic and nonmetallic sections of 25 and 5 material categories, respectively.

Aluminum Extrusion Technology
Aluminum Extrusion Technology, Second Edition

Aluminum Extrusion Technology, Second Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of aluminum extrusion technology and revises the first book, Aluminum Extrusion Technology (ASM International, 2000), by adding information about recent technology in press, process, die, and billet casting technologies and auxiliary equipment design.

Powder Metallurgy and Additive Manufacturing
Powder Metallurgy and Additive Manufacturing

Powder Metallurgy and Additive Manufacturing gives in-depth information about the evolution of powder metallurgy. Detailed explanations of powder production techniques are included, and advanced techniques such as additive manufacturing are explained. A comparison of additive manufacturing and powder metallurgy methods is included.