ASM HANDBOOK VOL 2: PROPERTIES AND SELECTION: NONFERROUS ALLOYS AND SPECIAL PURPOSE MATERIALS

The best and most comprehensive single-volume source available on the compositions, properties, selection, and applications of nonferrous metals and alloys. The most extensive coverage is devoted to the most widely used alloy families, including aluminum, titanium, and copper. Features 1,800 illustrations and hundreds of tables and data sheets covering alloy designations, compositions, properties, and performance.

Throughout the history of Metals Handbook, the amount of coverage accorded nonferrous alloys, special-purpose materials, and pure metals has steadily, if not dramatically, increased. That this trend has continued into the current 10th Edition is easily justified when one considers the significant developments that have occurred in the past decade. For example, metal-matrix composites, superconducting materials, and intermetallic alloys materials described in detail in the present volume were either laboratory curiosities or, in the case of high-temperature superconductors, not yet discovered when the 9th Edition Volume on this topic was published 10 years ago. Today, such materials are the focus of intensive research efforts and are considered commercially viable for a wide range of applications. In fact, the development of these new materials, combined with refinements and improvements in existing alloy systems, will ensure the competitive status of the metals industry for many years to come.
Publication of this Volume is also significant in that it marks the completion of a two-volume set on properties and selection of metals that serves as the foundation for the remainder of the 10th Edition. Exhaustive in scope, yet practical in approach, these companion volumes provide engineers with a reliable and authoritative reference that should prove a useful resource during critical materials selection decision-making.