ASM Handbook Volume 12: Fractography

The revised ASM Handbook, Volume 12: Fractography 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 fracture, visual examination and imaging methods, quantitative fractography, surface profiling, and fractal analysis. It describes the morphology of fracture surfaces at different length scales and identifies markers and patterns that shed light on how and why fractures occur.
A companion volume, ASM Handbook Volume 12A: Atlas of Fractographs, 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.