Abstract
The recently published ASM Handbook, Volume 4C is specifically devoted to meeting the needs of the induction heating and heat treating community. It is a long-awaited expansion of the ASM Handbook series to cover induction technology in depth. Heating by electromagnetic induction is a topic of major technological significance that continues to grow at an accelerated rate in a variety of thermal applications such as hardening, tempering, stress relieving, brazing, soldering, shrink fitting, melting, normalizing, annealing, coating, as well as re-heating ferrous and non-ferrous metallic materials prior to warm and hot working. The new ASM Handbook volume reflects an ambitious undertaking to compile an all-new, comprehensive resource on 21st-century induction thermal processes. World-recognized experts from leading universities, national research laboratories, and industrial corporations from 10 countries contributed to this volume, making it a truly international work to address leading-edge induction technologies.
