Welded design : theory and practice / John Hicks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hicks, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welded joints--Design and construction.

Welded joints.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Abington Publishing, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Welded design is often considered as an area in which there's lots of practice but little theory. Welded design tends to be overlooked in engineering courses and many engineering students and engineers find materials and metallurgy complicated subjects. Engineering decisions at the design stage need to take account of the properties of a material - if these decisions are wrong failures and even catastrophes can result. Many engineering catastrophes have their origins in the use of irrelevant or invalid methods of analysis, incomplete information or the lack of understanding of material behavior

Contents:

Front Cover; Welded Design - Theory and Practice; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The engineer; 1.1 Responsibility of the engineer; 1.2 Achievements of the engineer; 1.3 The role of welding; 1.4 Other materials; 1.5 The welding engineer as part of the team; Chapter 2. Metals; 2.1 Steels; 2.2 Aluminum alloys; Chapter 3. Fabrication processes; 3.1 Origins; 3.2 Basic features of the commonly used welding processes; 3.3 Cutting; 3.4 Bending; 3.5 Residual stresses and distortion; 3.6 Post weld heat treatment

Chapter 4. Considerations in designing a welded joint4.1 Joints and welds; 4.2 Terminology; 4.3 Weld preparations; 4.4 Dimensional tolerances; 4.5 Access; Chapter 5. Static strength; 5.1 Butt welds; 5.2 Fillet welds; Chapter 6. Fatigue cracking; 6.1 The mechanism; 6.2 Welded joints; 6.3 Residual stresses; 6.4 Thickness effect; 6.5 Environmental effects; 6.6 Calculating the fatigue life of a welded detail; Chapter 7. Brittle fracture; 7.1 Conventional approaches to design against brittle fracture; 7.2 Fracture toughness testing and specification; 7.3 Fracture mechanics and other tests

Chapter 8. Structural design8.1 Structural forms; 8.2 Design philosophies; 8.3 Limit state design; Chapter 9. Offshore structures; 9.1 The needs of deepwater structures; 9.2 The North Sea environment; 9.3 The research; 9.4 Platform design and construction; 9.5 Service experience; Chapter 10. Management systems; 10.1 Basic requirements; 10.2 Contracts and specifications; 10.3 Formal management systems; 10.4 Welded fabrication; Chapter 11. Weld quality; 11.1 Weld defects; 11.2 Quality control; 11.3 Welded repairs; 11.4 Engineering critical assessment; Chapter 12. Standards

12.1 What we mean by standards12.2 Standard specifications; References; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 6, 2014).

ISBN:

1-280-37243-5

9786610372430

1-59124-608-3

1-85573-762-0

OCLC:

475996040