News, Updates, and Additions

• Searches of the Ask the Experts Forum archives are now powered by "YAHOO". This will dramatically speed-up returns.
• Announcing the VIII International Conference on Stereology and Image Analysis in Materials Science, STERMAT 2008, Zakopane, Poland, 2-6 September, 2008
• NEW color metallography article from November issue of Microscopy Today.
  
• ASM posts metallography resources.
  
• A 68 page book with 39 color images, written in Slovak and English, was published in 2001 and is now available. “Colour Metallography of Ferrous Alloys” was written by Prof., Dr. Petr Skocovský and Dr. Tomáš Podrábský of the University of Žilina in Slovakia (ISBN 80-7100-911-3). The book is available from the university bookstore for $20. Write to them at:

  EDIS-vydavatelstvo Zilinskej University
  Hurbanova 15
  01026 Žilina
  Slovakia
  

• ASM Metals Handbook Volume 9 now available.

  Edited by Mr. George F. Vander Voort, a Fellow of ASM and world-renowned expert in the field of metallographic microstructural analysis, the new edition contains 30 new articles with substantive updates to other areas. “This vital update is the result of substantial changes in automation, equipment, consumable products and preparation methodology, as well as new metals, alloys and manufacturing technologies that have emerged since 1985” said Mr. Vander Voort.

  Revised content on standard specimen preparation of metallic and non-metallic materials, new equipment and techniques, digital imaging and analysis, microstructural interpretation, and the physical metallurgy/science of microstructural features is now included. Hundreds of new micrographs can be found throughout the volume along with an expanded section of color micrographs. The new volume replaces the 775 pg edition published in 1985.

  ASM Handbook Volume 9: Metallography and Microstructures ISBN No. 0-87170-706-3. Price is $210 ($168 for ASM members). Pages: 1,184. To order, visit www.asminternational.org/bookstore or contact ASM Customer Service, 9639 Kinsman Rd., Materials Park, Ohio 44073-0002. Tel.: 440/338-5151, ext. 5900. Fax: 440/338-4634. E-mail: CustomerService@asminternational.org.
  

• ASM International has added a "Metallography and Microstructure Resources" page to their website. From there you can easily access ASM's microstructural resources, sign up for a free trial of the ASM Micrograph Center Online, and download a free screen saver.
  
• To submit micrographs for publication in the ASM Micrograph Center Online contact Fran Cverna at micrograph@asminternational.org, or click on the Contribute link at http://products.asminternational.org/mgo/index.jsp. Submissions are peer reviewed before publication. Current acquisition priorities are those material groups with disproportionately small representation: refractory alloys, stainless steels, and tool steels. Submissions showing newly developed alloys from all material groups, or microstructures resulting from new improvement in processing, are always encouraged.
  
• To submit a color micrograph for the Buehler calendar contact George Vander Voort at Buehler Ltd., 41 Waukegan Rd., Lake Bluff, IL 60044, ph: 1-847-295-4590, fax: 1-847-295-7942, email: george.vandervoort@buehler.com for additional information.

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