Short description:

This book covers advances in fusion and solid-state welding processes including basics, welding metallurgy, defect formation and effect of process parameters on mechanical properties. The microstructural and mechanical behaviour of the weldments are included alongwith challenges encountered during the process.

Long description:

This book covers advances in fusion and solid-state welding processes including basics, welding metallurgy, defect formation, and the effect of process parameters on mechanical properties. Details of the microstructural and mechanical behaviors of weldments are included. This book covers challenges encountered during dissimilar welding of metal by fusion and solid-state welding processes, including remedial solutions and hybrid processes to counter the same. Numerical and statistical simulation approaches used in the welding process for parameter optimization and material flow studies are described as well.

Features:

• Provides details related to the microstructural and mechanical behaviors of welded joints developed by different welding processes.








• Covers recent research content, metallurgical analysis, and simulation aspects.








• Discusses the joining of plastics and ceramics.








• Includes a dedicated chapter on machine learning and digital twin in welding.








• Explores difficulties associated with the joining of dissimilar metals and alloys.

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in material joining and characterization and welding.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Underwater Explosive Welding of Tin and Nickel Plates and characterization of their interfaces. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2. Principle of underwater explosive welding. 1.3. Design considerations for experimentation of underwater explosive welding. 1.4. Methodology adopted to weld and characterize the metal plates. 1.5. Discussion on welded plates and their characterization. 1.6. Conclusion. References. Chapter 2. Advances in Gas Tungsten and Gas Metal Arc Welding ? A concise Review. 2.1. Introduction. 2.2. Advancements in Gas tungsten arc welding. 2.3. Advancements in Gas Metal Arc Welding. 2.4. DPGMAW. 2.5. High frequency pulsed gas metal arc welding. 2.6. Ultra high frequency pulse Metal-Inert Gas Welding (UFP-MIG). 2.7. Double-electrode gas metal arc welding (DE-GMAW). 2.8. Conclusion. References. Chapter 3. Welding of AISI 304 steel using TIG and Pulse TIG: Weld deposition and relative joint strength comparisons. 3.1. Introduction. 3.2. Materials and Methods. 3.3. Results & Discussion. 3.4. Conclusion. References. Chapter 4. Processing of bimetallic steel ? copper joint by beam welding. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Laser beam Welding of SS-copper. 4.3. Electron beam welding of steel-copper. 4.4. Conclusion. References. Chapter 5. Studies on Cold Metal Transfer Welding of Aluminium 5083 Alloy to Pure Titanium. 5.1. Introduction. 5.2 Experimental Methodology. 5.3. Results and Discussion. 5.4. Conclusion. References. Chapter 6. Diffusion bonding for dissimilar metals and alloys. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Diffusion mechanisms. 6.3 Process variables. 6.4 Challenges in joining dissimilar metals by diffusion bonding. 6.5 Approaches used to improve the effectiveness in dissimilar metal bonding. 6.6 Conclusion. References. Chapter 7. Friction stir welding ? a solution for dissimilar material joining. 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Major Parameters. 7.3. FSW of dissimilar materials. 7.4. Major issues. 7.5. Future scope. 7.6. Summary. References. Chapter 8. Joining of metallic materials using Microwave Hybrid Heating. 8.1. Introduction. 8.2. Fundamentals of microwave theory. 8.3. Heating mechanisms in microwave processing. 8.4. Modes of heating. Microwave Joining. 8.5 Microwave Joining. 8.6. Recent advances in microwave processing of metallic materials. 8.7. Summary. 8.8. Future scope of microwave processing. References. Chapter 9. Hybrid Welding Technologies. 9.1. Introduction. 9.2. Power source hybridisation. 9.3. Material hybridisation. 9.4. Summary. References. Chapter 10. Clinching: A Deformation-Based Advanced Joining Technique. 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 Variants of Clinching. 10.3. Clinching-based hybrid joining. 10.4. Factors affecting clinched joint formation. 10.5. Mechanical and Metallurgical Characteristics of Clinched Joint. 10.6. Failure modes of clinched joint. 10.7. Numerical modeling of the clinching technique. 10.8. Conclusion and Future Scope. References. Chapter 11. Systematic Study of Digital Twins for Welding Processes. 11.1 Introduction. 11.2 Literature Review. 11.3 Digital Twin in Welding. 11.4 Conclusion. References. Chapter 12. Application of machine learning techniques for Fault Detection in Friction Stir based Advanced Joining Techniques. 12.1 Introduction. 12.2 Artificial Intelligence in FSW and FSP. 12.3 Fault detection approach in FSW or FSP using artificial intelligence. 12.4 Summary. References. Chapter 13. Friction Stir Welding Characteristics of Dissimilar / Similar Ti-6Al-4V Based Alloy and Its Machine Learning Techniques. 13.1 Introduction. 13.2 Friction Stir Welding. 13.3 Conventional Optimization Techniques. 13.4 Machine Learning. 13.5 Advantages of Machine Learning in FSW. 13.6 Conclusion. References.