Provides engineers with enhanced capability for recognizing and interpreting the various features of a fracture, enabling you to perform improved failure analysis and to better determine the relationship of the fracture mode microstructure. 1,903 illustrations and 41 tables. Contents include: History of Fractography; Modes of Fracture; Preparation and Preservation of Fracture Specimens; Photography of Fractured Parts and Fracture Surfaces; Visual Examination and Light Microscopy; Scanning Electron Microscopy; Transmission Electron Microscopy; Quantitative Fractography; Fractal Analysis of...

Cast iron offers the design engineer a low-cost, high-strength material that can be easily melted and poured into a wide variety of useful, and sometimes complex, shapes. This latest handbook from ASM covers the entire spectrum of one of the most widely used and versatile of all engineered materials. The reader will find the basic, but vital, information on metallurgy, solidification characteristics, and properties. Extensive reviews are presented on the low-alloy gray, ductile, compacted graphite, and malleable irons. New and expanded material has been added covering high-alloy white irons...