An advanced yet accessible treatment of the welding process and its underlying science.
Despite the critically important role welding plays in nearly every type of human endeavor, most books on this process either focus on basic technical issues and leave the science out, or vice versa. In Principles of Welding, industry expert and prolific technical speaker Robert W. Messler, Jr. takes an integrated approach--presenting a comprehensive, self-contained treatment of the welding process along with the underlying physics, chemistry, and metallurgy of weld formation.
Promising to become the standard text and reference in the field, this book provides an unprecedented broad coverage of the underlying physics and the mechanics of solidification--including peritectic and eutectic reactions--and emphasizes material continuity and bonding as a way to create a joint between materials of the same general class. The author supplements the book with hundreds of tables and illustrations, and correlates the science to welding practices in the real world.
Principles of Welding departs from existing books with its clear, unambiguous presentation, which is easily grasped even by undergraduate students, yet given at the advanced level required by experienced engineers.
By:
Robert W. Messler Jr. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy New York)
Imprint: Blackwell Verlag GmbH
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9783527354917
ISBN 10: 3527354913
Pages: 685
Publication Date: 24 July 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface xix I THE PROCESS AND PROCESSES OF WELDING 1 Introduction to the Process of Welding 3 2 Classifying Welding Processes 17 3 Fusion Welding Processes 40 4 Nonfusion Welding Processes 94 II THE PHYSICS OF WELDING 5 Energy for Welding 127 6 The Flow of Heat in Welds 147 7 Thermally Induced Distortion and Residual Stresses During Welding 181 8 The Physics of Welding Energy or Power Sources 216 9 Molten Metal Transfer in Consumable Electrode Arc Welding 270 10 Weld Pool Convection, Oscillation, and Evaporation 291 III THE CHEMISTRY OF WELDING 11 Molten Metal and Weld Pool Reactions 315 12 Weld Chemical Heterogeneity 359 IV THE METALLURGY OF WELDING 13 Weld Fusion Zone Solidification 275 14 Eutectic, Peritectic, and Postsolidification Fusion Zone Transformations 454 15 The Partially Melted Zone 501 16 The Weld Heat-Affected Zone 514 17 Weldability and Weld Testing 577 Closing Thoughts 625 Appendices 627 Index 639
ROBERT W. MESSLER, JR., PhD, FASM, FAWS, is Associate Professor and Director of the Warren F. Savage Materials Joining Laboratory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. With over three decades in diverse areas of advanced materials and processes in industry and academia, Professor Messler has published numerous papers on welding, brazing, soldering, and innovative integral fastening as well as the book Joining of Advanced Materials.
