This comprehensive text maximizes reader's understanding of all aspects of welding, brazing, and soldering, explaining traditional as well as advanced joining technologies, including welding metallurgy, safety, testing, quality assurance (QA), and automation/robotic welding. The book contains 200 worked numerical examples, 120 diagrams/illustrations, and 100 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) with their answers. It covers the theory of welding with respect to the physics of welding and metallurgy and the residual stresses and distortions with detailed mathematical analyses and calculations. A range of welding practices are discussed, covering welding design, testing of weldments, fusion welding processes (OFW, SMAW, GMAW, GTAW, SAW, FCAW, PAW, ESW, RSW, RSeW, FEW, and LBW), solid-state welding processes (cold-pressure welding, USW, EXW, DBW, FW, RW, and other.), advanced welding processes (MPW, magnetic pulse welding, FSW, EBW, etc.). The book contains several case studies on failures of weld joints in structures/machine components. The volume prepares undergraduate students in mechanical, metallurgical, and manufacturing engineering for success in courses in welding and joining technology. In addition, graduate students, researchers, and practitioners would benefit from this book because it stands as a ready reference for both fundamentals and advances in welding and joining technologies.
Prof emeritus Zainul Huda, PhD, is among the World's Top 23 Scholars in the field of Materials and Manufacturing (see www.scholar.google.com). He is the author of over 100 publications, including 10 books and 65 Web of Science (WoS) articles published by reputed publishers from the USA, the UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, UAE, Pakistan, Malaysia, and South Korea. With 1550+ citations, his h-index is 18 (i-10 index: 31). He possesses 42-year academic experience (17-year standing as a full Professor) at reputed/world-ranking universities (e.g. University of Malaya, Malaysia, King Saud University, King Abdulaziz University, KSA).
Prof. em. Dr. Z. Huda has delivered guest lecturers on manufacturing/materials engineering in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. His teaching and research interests include manufacturing technology, welding and fabrication, metallurgy, materials characterization, aerospace materials, and microstructural control for performance and energy-efficiency improvements. He has attracted nine (9) research grants with a worth total of US$ 0.16 million. He has supervised to completion several PhD and Master theses.
Prof. em. Huda earned PhD in Materials Engineering/Tech from Brunel University, London, UK. He is also a postgraduate in Manufacturing Engineering. He obtained BS (Metallurgical Engineering) from the University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan. He is a Professional Engineer (PE) registered under Pakistan Engineering Council. He has satisfactorily completed 17 industrial consultancy projects. He is the developer of Toyota Corolla car's axle-hub's heat treatment process, first ever implemented in Pakistan. He is a recipient of Appreciation Certificate conferred t him by the Vice Chancellor of University of Malaya, Malaysia, for an innovation/invention in engineering design. He is also the receipt of UK-Singapore Science Collaboration Award, awarded to him by British High Commission, Singapore (in 2006).
