McEvily's book is one of the only available that covers not only how failure occurs but also the examination methods developed to expose the reasons for failure. As one reviewer put it: "This text provides perhaps the most concise and authoritative resource for the field of Metallurgical Failure Analysis....Rather than approaching failures from a cookbook perspective, that is only linking cause to failure through single case histories, (McEvily) presents the fundamental concepts of the discipline and suplements them with appropriate examples.....the most comprehensive and fundamentally organized book.." The new edition will contain updates of all chapters plus new coverage of; elastic behaviour and plastic deformation, localized necking, the phenomenological aspects of fatigue, fatigue crack propagation, alloys and coatings, tensors and tensor notations, and much more.
