Why use this?

ASM Handbook Volume 4 is the standard reference for heat-treating practice. It covers process fundamentals, steel and nonferrous heat treatment, hardenability, quenching, tempering, annealing, normalizing, case hardening, and the relationship between thermal processing, microstructure, and mechanical properties.

A heat-treatment engineer should use it when developing or reviewing a thermal process, interpreting hardness or microstructural results, selecting quenchants, or troubleshooting distortion, cracking, and property variation. It is the authoritative handbook companion to computational tools such as pyJMAK and to applicable ASTM, SAE, AMS, and customer specifications.

Key Features

• Covers steel and nonferrous heat-treating processes
• Explains hardenability, quenching, tempering, annealing, and case hardening
• Links thermal processing to microstructure and mechanical properties
• Practical reference for process development and troubleshooting
• Canonical industry handbook for heat-treatment engineering