Asm Specialty Handbook - Carbon And Alloy Steels Jun 2026

In an age of fleeting online resources and Wikipedia summaries, the rigor, peer review, and practical focus of this ASM volume remain unmatched. Every $0.25 bolt, $50 gear, and $10,000 shaft made from carbon or alloy steel has its performance limits defined somewhere within these pages.

The Handbook uses (Ni-Cr-Mo) as a paradigmatic alloy: asm specialty handbook - carbon and alloy steels

A matrix showing carbon equivalency (CE) and section thickness. For example: "For AISI 4340, thickness >1 inch, preheat to 400-600°F (200-315°C)." In an age of fleeting online resources and

One of the Handbook’s most referenced features is its collection of . For a given steel (e.g., 1070 eutectoid), the TTT diagram reveals the "nose" of the pearlite transformation (~550°C, ~1 second). The Handbook teaches that to form martensite, cooling must bypass this nose—hence the critical cooling rate ( R_c ). For example: "For AISI 4340, thickness >1 inch,

This triad transforms a periodic table into a manufacturing protocol.

Listing every SAE 10xx steel from 1005 to 1095, with exact C, Mn, P, S percentages. Critical for avoiding mix-ups.

: Reports on susceptibility to environmental damage like stress-corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement.