Welding: eBooks

A practical and in-depth guide to materials selection, welding techniques, and procedures, Applied Welding Engineering: Processes, Codes and Standards, provides expert advice for complying with international codes as well as working them into "day to day" design, construction and inspection activities.

Methods of Welding Aluminum
Course Components and Considerations
Determining a Trade Pathway for Students
Training Plan Checklists
Record Keeping Charts
Practical Assignments for Level I

If you need metal stuck together, there is no quicker path than buying a portable 110-volt wire-feedwelder.Being a snob, Mister Jalopy used to scoff at these small welders as not being serious machines. Then he started seeing them everywhere - at every auto body shop and every metal gate installer; even hooked up to a generator at drag races.Having used a Lincoln 135 Plus wirefeed welder (about $600) for a month or two, he's not scoffing any longer. Granted, it is not structural. You can't weld a bridge, skyscraper, or engine mounts to a carframe. But you can weld steel up to 3/16', which is thick enough to make furniture, wrought iron gates, and bad art.The beauty of the small Lincoln welders is they are light and portable. And when you get to wherever youare going, you can plug them into a standard 110-volt 20-amp outlet. If you use the flux core kit, you don't even have to carry around a tank of compressed shielding gas.This article is not a replacement for the manual or the many excellent books devoted to welding. This is aprimer to explain the process and show how you can be a welder by the end of the weekend - and end upwith a couple of jigs for the effort.

The book is aimed at those wishing to gain a basic knowledge of the practical aspects of the four most widely used welding processes: manual metal arc (MMA), metal inert/active gas (MIG/AG), tungsten inert gas (TIG) and oxy-acetylene welding and cutting. In addition to a detailed treatment of these four methods, further sections deal with the various angles at which welding can be carried out, the effect of the different materials, and quality assessment. Important safety information is collected into a preliminary section whilst highlighted safety warnings carry the safety theme through the entire text. Features to aid comprehension include a glossary of welding terms and symbols, self-assessment questions and a guide to current welder qualifications in the light of recent European standardisation.