By Gene Mathers
The Welding of Aluminum and its Alloys provides a basic understanding of the metallurgic principles underpinning how alloys achieve their strength and how welding can affect their properties. A practical guide for the shop-floor engineer, the book covers weldability of aluminum alloys, process description, advantages, limitations, proposed weld parameters, health and safety issues, preparation for welding, quality assurance and quality control issues, and problem solving.
The book covers parent metal storage and preparation prior to welding, describes the more frequently encountered processes, and presents recommendations on welding parameters that may be used as a starting point for the development of a viable welding procedure. Providing hints and tips that help you avoid some of the pitfalls of welding these sometimes problematic materials, the book's content is both descriptive and qualitative.
- Provides a practical user's guide by a respected expert to all aspects of aluminum welding
- Presents important concepts in terms easily understood by even the non-metallurgist
- Demonstrates best practice in fabricating aluminum structures
- Covers all the major processes including TIG, MIG, plasma-arc welding, laser welding, electron beam welding and friction stir welding