Fractography is the term coined by Carl A. Zapffe in 1944 following his discovery of a means for overcoming the difficulty of bringing the lens of a microscope sufficiently near the jagged surface of a fracture to disclose its details within individual grains (Ref 1). The purpose of fractography is to analyze the fracture features and to attempt to relate the topography of the fracture surface to the causes and/or basic mechanisms of fracture | g Q M VOLUME 12 Fractography ASM INTERNATIONAL The Materials Information Company Publication Information and Contributors Fractography was published in 1987 as Volume 12 of the ASM Handbook. The Volume was prepared under the direction of the ASM Handbook Committee. Authors and Reviewers LAMET UFRGS . Bagnoli Mobil Research Development Corporation Kingshuk Banerji Georgia Institute of Technology Bruce Boardman Deere Company . Bucheit Battelle Columbus Laboratories H. Burghard Southwest Research Institute Theodore M. Clarke E. Philip Dahlberg Metallurgical Consultants Inc. Barbara L. Gabriel Packer Engineering Associates Inc. J. Gurland Brown University . Hertzberg Lehigh University Jan Hinsch E. Leitz Inc. Brian H. Kaye Victor Kerlins Campbell Laird Robert McCoy . McCrone . Case Company Laurentian University McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company University of Pennsylvania Youngstown State University McCrone Research Institute C. R. Morin Packer Engineering Associates Inc. Alex J. Morris Olin Corporation . Murza The Timken Company D. E. Passoja Technical Consultant . Pelloux Massachusetts Institute of Technology Austin Phillips Technical Consultant Robert O. Ritchie University of California at Berkeley Cyril Stanley Smith Technical Consultant Ervin E. Underwood Georgia Institute of Technology George F. Vander Voort Carpenter Technology Corporation George R. Yoder Naval Research Laboratory . Yost Sandia National Laboratory Richard D. Zipp . Case Company Contributors of Fractographs R. Abrams C. Alstetter . Baer Howmedica Division of Pfizer Hospital Products Group Inc. University of Illinois California Polytechnic State University . Bhargava Xtek Inc. H. Birnbaum University of Illinois . Bohl University of Illinois . Bradley Texas A M University . Bravenec Anderson Associates Inc. . Brooks University of Tennessee N. Brown University of Pennsylvania C. Bryant De Havilland Aircraft Company of Canada Ltd. D. A. Canonico C-E .
