This textbook provides fundamental understanding on technological aspects related to arc welding, heat flow, relevant metallurgical transformations, and quality assurance methodologies joints. It has been composed keeping in purview the requirements of those interested in research and development in the field of metal joining. The contents focus on the fundamentals of physics of welded joints, arc welding processes, brazing and soldering, heat flow in welding, welding metallurgy, design of welded joints, and inspection and testing of welded joints and weldability of metals. This book will be useful to both academics and those in the industry.Metal Joining: Need, Approaches, Mechanisms.- Classification of Joining Processes.- Heat Generation and Protection of Weld.- Power Density & Peak Temperature of Welding Processes.- Physics of Welding Arc: Electron Emission and Welding Arc.- Physics of Welding Arc: Arc Initiation and Arc Maintenance.- Physics of Welding Arc: Arc forces, Electrode Polarity and Arc blow.- Physics of Welding Arc: Arc Efficiency, Metal Transfer and Melting Rate.- Arc Welding Power Source: Basic Characteristics.- Arc Welding Power Source: Basic Characteristics, Duty Cycle, and Feed Drives.
Dheerendra Kumar Dwivedi, PhD, Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He has completed his Bachelor of Engineering (mechanical engineering) from Government Engineering College Rewa in 1993, Master of Engineering (welding engineering) from University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) in 1997 and Doctorate (metallurgical engineering) from MNIT Jaipur in 2003. He has been involved in teaching, research and development, industrial consultancy for the last 25 years broadly in the area of manufacturing technologies in general and casting, welding and surfacing modification for improved mechanical properties in particular.
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