Principles of Welding by Robert W. Messler - 9783527354917

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH

Principles of WeldingProcesses, Physics, Chemistry, and Metallurgy\nAuthor(s): Robert W. Messler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Germany\nImprint: Blackwell Verlag GmbH\nISBN-13: 9783527354917, 978-3527354917\nSynopsis\nAn advanced yet accessible treatment of the welding process and its underlying science. Despite the critically important role welding plays in nearly every type of human endeavor, most books on this process either focus on basic technical issues and leave the science out, or vice versa. In Principles of Welding, industry expert and prolific technical speaker Robert W. Messler, Jr. takes an integrated approach--presenting a comprehensive, self-contained treatment of the welding process along with the underlying physics, chemistry, and metallurgy of weld formation. Promising to become the standard text and reference in the field, this book provides an unprecedented broad coverage of the underlying physics and the mechanics of solidification--inclu.