Foreword

ASM International recorded excellent results, both in its programming and financially, in 2020, the final year of its three-year ASM Renewal. Professional dedication and a relentless focus on technical excellence, membership, and strategic partnerships resulted in the successful completion of the ASM Renewal. ASM International vigorously acted upon its belief that it provides the most benefits to its members and society by considering and engaging the following areas in tandem: engineering/design, materials, manufacturing, and quality.

The esteemed ASM Handbook series truly embodies ASM’s Vision, “To be the leading global resource for materials information,” and its Mission, in part, “To gather, process, and disseminate materials information globally.” ASM Handbook, Volume 11A, Analysis and Prevention of Component and Equipment Failures is the latest in a reference book series that is the number one source worldwide of expert, peer-reviewed materials information.

Volume editors Brett A. Miller, Roch J. Shipley, Ronald J. Parrington, and Daniel P. Dennies; five division editors; and hundreds of authors and peer reviewers worked tirelessly to revise Volume 11 from its 2002 and 1986 editions. The new Volume 11A is a go-to resource for failure analysts, engineers, and technical personnel who share one ultimate goal: failure prevention. It contains divisions devoted to engineering aspects of failure and prevention, structural life assessment methods, metal manufacturing aspects of failure, and failure analysis of metallic components.

The Volume presents the most up-to-date information available on the complex discipline of machine and component failure analysis. It is the reason ASM International is the most highly regarded and relied-upon provider of materials knowledge in the world.