Ebook: Welded Design - Theory and Practice

Welded design is often considered as an area in which there's lots of practice but little theory. Welded design tends to be overlooked in engineering courses and many engineering students and engineers find materials and metallurgy complicated subjects. Engineering decisions at the design stage need to take account of the properties of a material, if these decisions are wrong, failures and even catastrophes can result. Many engineering catastrophes have their origins in the use of irrelevant or invalid methods of analysis, incomplete information or the lack of understanding of material behaviour.
Content:
• Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
1. The Engineer
2. Metals
3. Fabrication Processes
4. Considerations in Designing a Welded Joint
5. Static Strength
6. Fatigue Cracking
7. Brittle Fracture
8. Structural Design
9. Offshore Structures
10. Management Systems
11. Weld Quality
12. Standards
• References
• Bibliography
• Index