Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgement
• Introduction: Welding
• Welding Distortion
• Line Heating
• Arc Welding: Arc Welding Power Sources
• Welding Parameters and their Effects
• Welding Processes
• Welding Techniques
• Welding Design
• Friction Stir Welding: Tool Geometry
• Tool Shoulder Material and Backing Material
• Heat Generation
• Heat Transfer into Tool and Work Piece
• Finite Element Heat Flow Model
• Basic FSW Metallurgy
• Defects and their Detection
• Advantages and Disadvantages of the FSW Process
• Friction Stir Welding Trial
• Welding Distortion: Distortion Mechanism
• Types of Distortion and their Prediction
• Finite Element Analysis of Distortion
• Distortion Control: Design Considerations
• Structural Fitup
• Heat Input
• Alteration of Thermal Pattern
• Welding Sequence
• Summary
• Residual Stress: Sources of Residual Stresses
• Welding Residual Stress Formation
• Prediction of Welding Residual Stresses
• Line Heating: Thermal Analysis
• Mechanical Analysis
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Plastic Strain Distribution
• Compound Curved Surface Generation
• References
• Index.

About the Author

N. R. Mandal.: Department of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur