Table of Contents

Preface: Welding: The Permanent Bond Between Two Solid Bodies

Chapter 1: Traditional Welding Processes

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Conditions to create metallic bonding

1.3. Industrial welding processes

1.4. Bibliography

Chapter 2: High Density Energy Beam Welding Processes: Electron Beam and Laser Beam

2.1. Welding properties using high density energy beams

2.2. Laser beam welding

2.3. Electron beam welding

2.4. Metallurgy of high density energy beam welding

2.5. Mechanical properties of welded joints

2.6. The quality of the assemblies

2.7. Economic aspects

2.8. Safety [HEE 00]

2.9. Examples of industrial applications

2.10. Development prospects

2.11. Bibliography

Chapter 3: Thermal, Metallurgical and Mechanical Phenomena in the Heat Affected Zone

3.1. Thermal aspects related to welding

3.2. Microstructural modifications in the HAZ: metallurgical consequences of the thermal cycles of welding

3.3. Influence of the thermal cycles on the mechanical properties of the HAZ

3.4. Bibliography

Chapter 4: Molten Metal

4.1. Metallurgical reminders

4.2. Molten metal

4.3. Principal welding defects

4.4. Bibliography

Chapter 5: Welding Products

5.1. Coated electrodes

5.2. Fluxes for submerged arc welding

5.3. Welding gases

5.4. Cored wires

5.5. Choice of welding products

5.6. Welding products and the welder’s environment

5.7. Bibliography

Chapter 6: Fatigue Strength of Welded Joints

6.1. Fatigue strength

6.2. Dimensioning of joints in mechanized welding

6.3. Bibliography

Chapter 7: Fracture Toughness of Welded Joints

7.1. Ductile fracture and brittle fracture

7.2. Evaluation of fracture risks in metallic materials

7.3. Evaluation of fracture risks in welded joints

7.4. Consequences of heterogenities on the evaluation of fracture risks

7.5. Bibliography

Chapter 8: Welding of Steel Sheets, With and Without Surface Treatments

8.1. Spot welding

8.2. Seam welding

8.3. Laser welding of thin sheets

8.4. Arc welding

8.5. Bibliography

Chapter 9: Welding of Steel Mechanical Components

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Specificities of welded bonds in mechanical components

9.3. Principal types of welding for mechanical components

9.4. Specifications and quality control of the weldings for these components

9.5. Developments and trends

9.6. Conclusions

9.7. Bibliography

Chapter 10: Welding Steel Structures

10.1. Introduction

10.2. Steels for steel structures

10.3. Steel construction welding processes and techniques

10.4. Welding distortion

10.5. Defects and their prevention

10.6. Specificities of non-destructive testing of steel structures

10.7. Developmental perspectives

Chapter 11: Welding Heavy Components in the Nuclear Industry

11.1. General presentation of a PWR pressure vessel

11.2. Main materials used for manufacturing

11.3. Welding of large low alloy steel components

11.4. Cladding

11.5. Welding of stainless steel circuits

11.6. Dissimilar metal interfaces

11.7. Welding of steam generator pipes

11.8. Conclusions

Chapter 12: Welding Stainless Steels

12.1. Definitions

12.2. Principal stainless steel families

12.3. Metallurgical structures

12.4. Constitution diagrams

12.5. Welding ferritic stainless steels

12.6. Welding of martensitic stainless steels

12.7. Welding of austenitic stainless steels

12.8. The welding of austeno-ferritic stainless steels (duplex)

12.9. Heterogenous welding

12.10. Finishing of welds

12.11. Glossary

12.12. Bibliography

Chapter 13: Welding Aluminum Alloys

13.1. Metallurgy of welding

13.2. Welding techniques

13.3. Preparation and use of semi-finished aluminum welding products

13.4. Deformations

13.5. Dimensioning of the welded structures

13.6. Welding defects

13.7. Health and safety

13.8. Bibliography

Chapter 14: Standardization: Organization and Quality Control in Welding

14.1. Introduction

14.2. Standards of general organization of quality

14.3. Standards for welding procedure qualification

14.4. Non-destructive testing standards

14.5. Conclusion

List of Authors

Index