VI
Improving Global Quality of Life
Through Optimum Use and Innovation of Welding and Joining Technologies
Contents
Foreword ...................................................................................................................................... III
Panel of expert contributors ..................................................................................................... IV
Executive summary....................................................................................................................XII
Editors’ Preface.......................................................................................................................... XIII
1.
Scope and objectives
.....................................................................................................1
2.
Welding industry in the world
......................................................................................3
2.1
Historical perspective: welding as problem solver ...................................................4
2.2
Today’s welding industry and its structures ...............................................................6
2.3
Organisations, institutes, communication and networks..........................................6
2.3.1
Early welding societies.................................................................................................6
2.3.2
International cooperation...........................................................................................7
2.3.3
Regional benefits .........................................................................................................8
3
Significance of welding and joining
.........................................................................9
3.1
Major industrial sectors utilising welding and joining .............................................10
3.2
Social aspects and improvement of quality of life.................................................11
3.3
Welding and joining in sustainable growth and environment ..............................12
3.4
Value and benefits of welding..................................................................................12
3.5
Failures of welded structures.....................................................................................14
4.
Needs and challenges in welding and joining sciences
.............................17
4.1
New materials, weldability and testing....................................................................18
4.1.1
New materials and weldability .................................................................................20
4.1.2
Consumables..............................................................................................................25
4.1.3
Testing ..........................................................................................................................26
4.2
High energy density welding processes and material response ..........................28
4.3
Repair welds and material response .......................................................................29
