ASM Handbook, Vol. 12

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.