Co-published by Woodhead Publishing Ltd. (in association with The Welding Institute) and ASM International. The only comprehensive guide to avoiding hydrogen cracking. An essential problem-solver for anyone involved in welding ferritic steels. Replaces and updates a popular text, includes new sections on detection and identification, and new work on cracking in weld metals and in steels of low carbon equivalent. If youAre a metallurgist, welding engineer, mechanical engineer or designer concerned with welding transformable steels, this new book can help you avoid your most common problem. It combines the best of the First Edition with coverage of the significant changes in steel compositions and production routes since 1984. Completely updated by a team from The Welding Institute (UK), the Second Edition provides an understanding of theory but emphasizes practice, with clear and detailed guidelines for the fabricator faced with a new steel or welding process to avoid hydrogen cracking. Contents Include: Defining the problem, guidance on safe welding procedures by graphical methods, selecting values for graphical presentation, welding procedures for different steel types, and removing hydrogen during welding and heat treatment. Also features appendices on typical hydrogen levels and techniques of hydrogen measurement.