Preface: Welding: The Permanent Bond Between Two Solid Bodies
Chapter 1: Traditional Welding Processes
1.2. Conditions to create metallic bonding
1.3. Industrial welding processes
Chapter 2: High Density Energy Beam Welding Processes: Electron Beam and Laser Beam
2.1. Welding properties using high density energy beams
2.4. Metallurgy of high density energy beam welding
2.5. Mechanical properties of welded joints
2.6. The quality of the assemblies
2.9. Examples of industrial applications
Chapter 3: Thermal, Metallurgical and Mechanical Phenomena in the Heat Affected Zone
3.1. Thermal aspects related to welding
3.3. Influence of the thermal cycles on the mechanical properties of the HAZ
4.3. Principal welding defects
5.2. Fluxes for submerged arc welding
5.5. Choice of welding products
5.6. Welding products and the welder’s environment
Chapter 6: Fatigue Strength of Welded Joints
6.2. Dimensioning of joints in mechanized welding
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
Chapter 8: Welding of Steel Sheets, With and Without Surface Treatments
8.3. Laser welding of thin sheets
Chapter 9: Welding of Steel Mechanical Components
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
Chapter 10: Welding Steel Structures
10.2. Steels for steel structures
10.3. Steel construction welding processes and techniques
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
11.5. Welding of stainless steel circuits
11.6. Dissimilar metal interfaces
11.7. Welding of steam generator pipes
Chapter 12: Welding Stainless Steels
12.2. Principal stainless steel families
12.3. Metallurgical structures
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)
Chapter 13: Welding Aluminum Alloys
13.3. Preparation and use of semi-finished aluminum welding products
13.5. Dimensioning of the welded structures
Chapter 14: Standardization: Organization and Quality Control in Welding
14.2. Standards of general organization of quality
14.3. Standards for welding procedure qualification