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Featuring over 1700 high-quality fractographs across 30 material categories—from cast irons to ceramics—this essential atlas provides engineers and failure analysts with a visual reference guide to identify fracture mechanisms and understand why materials fail.
ASM Handbook, Volume 12A: Atlas of Fractographs—a companion to Volume 12, Fractography—delivers an unparalleled collection of fracture surface images organized by failure mode, offering metallurgists, materials scientists, and quality professionals the critical visual tools needed to diagnose overload, fatigue, stress-corrosion cracking, and embrittlement failures across both metallic and nonmetallic materials. The presentation of fractographs assists readers in recognizing the characteristic features of different types of fracture, and the potential role of material microstructures and imperfections in fractures.
The metallic section of Volume 12A comprises cast irons, pure irons, carbon and alloy steels, tool steels, stainless steels, maraging steels, superalloys, nonferrous alloys—nickel, cobalt, aluminum, copper, titanium, magnesium, zinc—and metal-matrix composites. Polymers, polymer-matrix composites, ceramics, and cemented carbides comprise the nonmetallic section.
CONTENTS
ATLAS OF METALLIC FRACTOGRAPHS
Introduction—Atlas of Metallic Fractographs
Gray Cast Irons
Ductile Cast Irons
White Cast Irons
Malleable Cast Irons
Pure Irons
Carbon and Alloy Steels
Tool Steels
Austenitic Stainless Steels
Ferritic Stainless Steels
Duplex Stainless Steels
Precipitation-Hardening Stainless Steels
Martensitic Stainless Steels
Maraging Steels
Iron-Base Superalloys
Nickel-Base Superalloys
Nickel Alloys
Cobalt Alloys
Aluminum Alloys – Cast
Aluminum Alloys – Wrought
Aluminum Alloys – Powder Metallurgy
Copper Alloys
Titanium Alloys
Magnesium and Zinc Alloys
Miscellaneous Alloys
Metal-Matrix Composites
ATLAS OF NONMETALLIC FRACTOGRAPHS
Introduction—Atlas of Nonmetallic Fractographs
Polymers
Polymer-Matrix Composites
Ceramics
Cemented Carbides
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Materials Testing and Evaluation | Failure Analysis
Materials Testing and Evaluation | Metallography and Microstructures
Materials Properties and Performance | Fracture
