Joining Processes for Dissimilar and Advanced Materials (Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering Series)

Joining Processes for Dissimilar and Advanced Materials describes how to overcome the many challenges involved in the joining of similar and dissimilar materials resulting from factors including different thermal coefficients and melting points. Traditional joining processes are ineffective with many newly developed materials. The ever-increasing industrial demands for production efficiency and high-performance materials are also pushing this technology forward. The resulting emergence of advanced micro- and nanoscale material joining technologies, have provided many solutions to these challenges. Drawing on the latest research, this book describes primary and secondary processes for the joining of advanced materials such as metals and alloys, intermetallics, ceramics, glasses, polymers, superalloys, electronic materials and composites in similar and dissimilar combinations. It also covers details of joint design, quality assurance, economics and service life of the product. Review Covers a wide range of innovative joining processes for use with dissimilar and high-performance materials, along with characterization, simulation, and digitalization methods for joints From the Back Cover <p><i>Joining Processes for Dissimilar and Advanced Materials</i> describes how to overcome the many challenges involved in the joining of similar and dissimilar materials resulting from factors including different thermal coefficients and melting points.</p> <p>Traditional joining processes are ineffective with many newly developed materials. The ever-increasing industrial demands for production efficiency and high-performance materials are also pushing this technology forward. The resulting emergence of advanced micro- and nanoscale material joining technologies, have provided many solutions to these challenges.</p> <p>Drawing on the latest research, this book describes primary and secondary processes for the joining of advanced materials such as metals and alloys, intermetallics, ceramics, glasses, polymers, superalloys, electronic materials and composites in similar and dissimilar combinations. It also covers details of joint design, quality assurance, economics and service life of the product.</p> About the Author Pawan Kumar Rakesh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand, India. He was previously the first Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at IIT Roorkee, where he completed his PhD. He lectures on Advanced Joining Processes at NIT Uttarkhand to both undergraduate and graduate students. His main research interests are Primary and Secondary Processing of Polymer Matrix Composites, Finite Element Approach in Design and Analysis of Composite Materials, Green Composites. J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also distinguished as an honorary professor in several universities/colleges in China, India and Spain. The Portuguese Institution of Engineers conferred him with the title of Senior Chartered Engineer and has an MBA. He was also awarded a Eur Ing title by FEANI-Brussels and is a Fellow (FIET) of IET-London. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing, materials, mechanical and industrial engineering, with special emphasis in machining and tribology. He has worked as an evaluator of projects for the European Research Council (ERC) and other international research agencies as well as an examiner of Ph.D. theses for many universities in different countries. He is the editor-in-chief of several international journals, guest editor of several journals, series editor for Elsevier’s Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering book series, and scientific advisor for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an editorial board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more