Discover the extraordinary progress that welding metallurgy has experienced over the last two decades
Welding Metallurgy, 3rd Edition is the only complete compendium of recent, and not-so-recent, developments in the science and practice of welding metallurgy. Written by Dr. Sindo Kou, this edition covers solid-state welding as well as fusion welding, which now also includes resistance spot welding. It restructures and expands sections on Fusion Zones and Heat-Affected Zones. The former now includes entirely new chapters on microsegregation, macrosegregation, ductility-dip cracking, and alloys resistant to creep, wear and corrosion, as well as a new section on ternary-alloy solidification. The latter now includes metallurgy of solid-state welding. Partially Melted Zones are expanded to include liquation and cracking in friction stir welding and resistance spot welding. New chapters on topics of high current interest are added, including additive manufacturing, dissimilar-metal joining, magnesium alloys, and high-entropy alloys and metal-matrix nanocomposites.
Dr. Kou provides the reader with hundreds of citations to papers and articles that will further enhance the reader's knowledge of this voluminous topic. Undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers and mechanical engineers will all benefit spectacularly from this comprehensive resource.
The new edition includes new theories/methods of Kou and coworkers regarding:
- Predicting the effect of filler metals on liquation cracking
- An index and analytical equations for predicting susceptibility to solidification cracking
- A test for susceptibility to solidification cracking and filler-metal effect
- Liquid-metal quenching during welding
- Mechanisms of resistance of stainless steels to solidification cracking and ductility-dip cracking
- Mechanisms of macrosegregation
- Mechanisms of spatter of aluminum and magnesium filler metals,
- Liquation and cracking in dissimilar-metal friction stir welding,
- Flow-induced deformation and oscillation of weld-pool surface and ripple formation
- Multicomponent/multiphase diffusion bonding
Dr. Kou's Welding Metallurgy has been used the world over as an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and engineers alike. This new Third Edition is no exception.
About the Author: Sindo Kou, PhD, is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He graduated from MIT with a doctorate in metallurgy. He is a Fellow of American Welding Society and ASM International.
He received the William Irrgang Memorial Award (2018), the Honorary Membership Award (2016), and the Comfort A. Adams Lecture Award (2012) from the American Welding Society (AWS); the Yoshiaki Arata Award (2017) from the International Institute of Welding (IIW); the Bruce Chalmers Award (2013) from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS); the John Chipman Award (1980) from the Iron and Steel Society of AIME; and Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching (1999) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His technical papers won the Warren F. Savage Memorial Award (4 times), Charles H. Jennings Memorial Award (4 times), William Spraragen Award (3 times), A.F. Davis Silver Medal Award, and James F. Lincoln Gold Medal of AWS; and the Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award of TMS.
