Aluminium Welding

N R Mandal (Author)

9781855735972, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 1 January 2001

160 pages
24.1 x 15.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.47 kg

This publication is a comprehensive book on the welding of aluminium, aimed primarily at practising engineers and students of welding technology. After describing the properties of wrought and cast aluminium alloys, their applications, alloy designations and composition, both in heat-treatable and non heat-treatable alloys, it goes on to explain the process variables in weld metal transfer mechanisms, the ways of overcoming problems in GAS tungsten ARC welding, and distortion – also providing numerical methods of analysis. A thorough and timely guide to all aspects of aluminium welding.

General characteristics of aluminium
Surface preparation guidelines
Joint design and edge preparation
ARC welding power sources
Welding parameters
Electrode wires for GAS metal ARC welding
Electrode feeder and gun
Shielding gas
ARC characteristics
Weld backing for GAS metal ARC welding
Welding procedures
GAS tungsten ARC welding
Welding procedures
Welding defects
Advantages of GAS metal ARC welding and GAS tungsten ARC welding
Selection of process
Welding distortion
Residual stress.

Subject Areas: Metals technology / metallurgy [TDM]