Welding Processes Handbook
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crucial manufacturing technique in creating countless numbers of commonly used items. From buildings to bridges and cars to computers, many of these items would be virtually impossible to produce without the use of welding.
Welding Processes Handbook is a concise, explanatory guide to commonly used and commercially significant welding processes. It describes processes and equipment applicable to all instruction levels, and takes the novice or student through the individual steps involved in each process in a clear and comprehensible way. Topics such as welded joint design, quality assurance, and costing are all covered in detail.
The handbook provides an up-to-date reference on the major applications of welding as they are used in industry. It is poised to become the leading guide to basic welding technologies for those new to the industry.
Table of Contents
Arc welding – an overview
- History of welding
- Terminology
- Distortion
- The welding arc
- Shielding gases
- Power sources
Gas welding
- Equipment
TIG welding
- A description of the method
- Equipment
- Consumables
Plasma welding
- A description of the method
- Equipment
- Gases for plasma welding
- The advantage of the plasma method
MIG/MAG welding
- Equipment
- Setting of welding parameters
- Consumables
- Weld quality
Metal arc welding with coated electrodes
- A description of the method
- Equipment
- Electrodes
- Weld defects
Submerged arc welding
- A description of the method
- Equipment
- Filler material
- The effect of the welding parameters
- Productivity improvements
- Joint shapes
- Risk of weld defects
Pressure welding methods
- Resistance welding
- Friction welding
- High-frequency welding
- Ultrasonic welding
- Explosion welding
- Magnetic pulse welding
- Cold pressure welding
- Diffusion welding
Other methods of welding
- Electroslag welding
- Electrogas welding
- Stud welding
- Laser welding
- Electron beam welding
- Thermite welding Cutting methods
- Thermal cutting
- Water jet cutting
- Thermal gouging
Surface cladding methods
- Cladding to provide a corrosion-resistant layer
- Hardfacing
- Thermal spraying
Mechanisation and robotic welding
- Narrow-gap welding
- Arc welding using robots
- Mechanised TIG welding
- Quality requirements for mechanised welding
Soldering and brazing
- General
- Soft soldering
- Brazing
Weldability of steel
- Carbon steels
- High-strength and extra high-strength steels
Design of welded products
- Introduction
- Symbolic representation of welds of drawings
- Welding classes
- Residual stresses in welds, weld distortions
- Design considerations
- Strength considerations of welded joints
- Analysis of statically loaded welded joints
Quality assurance and quality management
- Quality requirements for welding (EN 729)
- Welding coordination (EN719)
- Specification and approval for welding procedures (EN 288)
- Approval testing of welders (EN 287)
- Non-destructive welding
Welding costs
- Welding cost calculations
- Some welding cost concepts
- Cost calculation
- Mechanisation, automation and robotic welding
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