Aluminium Welding

Unlike steel welding, aluminium welding is complex because of the material’s inherent thermo-physical properties. In order to achieve good results stringent process control is necessary. This new book covers everything that practising welding engineers or students need to know including: an introduction to the properties of wrought and cast aluminium alloys and their applications; the alloy designations of wrought alloys, cast alloys and tempering; the properties and applications of non heat-treatable and heat-treatable alloys; types of power source and their effects; the weld metal transfer mechanism and its dependence on process variables; likely problems with gas tungsten arc welding of aluminium and their solutions and types, causes and methods for the analysis of thermal distortion and residual stresses.