Description

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To meet weight, quality, and cost targets, it is essential to design, develop, and manufacture optimal, cost-effective welded structures that take into consideration material, process, and dimensioning procedures. For effective design, a weld designer must have a comprehensive grasp of welding basics, associated metallurgy, and fabrication and characterization processes. Advanced Welding Techniques highlights breakthroughs in advances in welding methods and provides readers with the ability to accurately identify the appropriate welding processes and optimal improvement methods for intended applications. It offers comprehensive guidance on welding design to ensure readers are equipped to provide solutions to any technical malfunctions they may encounter.

- Supplies essential stepwise knowledge on design for welding, starting with the fundamentals to the complex.

- Covers role of filler metals and parameters on welding performance, emerging and advanced welding techniques, and advantages and limitations of various methods.

- Discusses integration of additive manufacturing and welding.

- Contains practical applications.

- Considers challenges and future scope for further research as well as future challenges.

This book offers students, academics, researchers, scientists, engineers, and industry experts a comprehensive overview the most recent breakthroughs in advanced welding methods and their applications to joining various metals and their alloys.

About the Author

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Himanshu Vashishtha is Research Associate at the University of Birmingham, UK, working on additively manufactured cardiovascular stents and synchrotron beamlines. He completed his Master's and doctoral degrees from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur, India.Deepak Kumar is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, where he is developing conductive oxides as contact materials for micro- and nanoelectromechanical switches. He received his doctorate from the Materials Science and Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.Ravindra Vasantro Taiwade is Associate Professor in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur, India. He received his Ph.D. from VNIT Nagpur.