Woodhead Publishing Fundamentals of Evaluation and Diagnosis of Welded Structures (Woodhead Publishing in Materials) (Woodhead Publishing Series in Welding and Other Joining Technologies)

Product Description Fundamentals of evaluation and diagnostics of welded structures provides an essential guide to the key principles and problems involved in the analysis of welded structures. Chapter one discusses design issues, key equations and calculations, and the effects of varied heat sources in relation to the temperature field in welding. Chapter two goes on to explore welding stresses and strains. Fracture mechanics and the load-carrying capacity of welded structures are the focus of chapter three. Chapter four considers diagnostics and prediction of the residual life of welded structures, whilst acoustic emission techniques for the analysis of welded structures are reviewed in Chapter five. Finally, chapter six supplies supplementary information on numerical techniques and other tests for welded structures. Published in association with Cambridge International Science Publishing Contents: The temperature field in welding; Welding stresses and strains; Load-carrying capacity of welded structures; Diagnostics and prediction of the residual life of welded structures; Acoustic emission techniques for the analysis of welded structures; Supplementary sections. Numerical techniques and tests for welded structures. Review Experience has shown that the problem of guaranteeing the safe operation of structures can be divided into certain key requirements. We are pleased to say that this manual completely meets these requirements. --Professor B. E. Paton, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine About the Author Professor Anatoliy Yakovlevich Nedoseka is head of the Technical Diagnostics and Non-destructive Testing (NDT) Department at the E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute (PEWI) of the National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine.