This book provides an insight into the welding techniques with a cross-disciplinary treatment to address the shortcomings of contemporary learning of welding terminology. Various topics covered include introduction to welding processes, design requirements, prominence of design, case studies presenting structural defacements due to inappropriate design, comprehensive surveys on welding processes selected from various process categories, design calculations to be adopted for specific applications and sample calculations. This book is useful for researchers, engineers and professionals working on welding equipment and technologies.
Mukti Chaturvedi is Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at Dayananda Sagar University. She graduated with electrical engineering and did postgraduation in VLSI and Embedded Systems. During her graduation, she cultivated interest in power electronics and control system. She instituted various projects pertinent to power electronics, control system and electrical drives. Relentless efforts resulted in technical acquaintance with several concepts from versatile fields encompassing manufacturing, especially welding. With the opportunity to work in various industries, she has got the exposure to different domains of work. The current role as a faculty member provided ample scope for reading, learning, teaching and performing interesting experimentations on different subjects moulding her to acquire multifaceted outlook. This led her to identify welding technology to be her area for Ph.D. which constitutes power source design, configurations and process understanding, automations through programming for control and converter modules.
S. Arungalai Vendan is presently Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at Dayananda Sagar University, Bangalore. Previously, he was a faculty member in Industrial Automation and Instrumentation Division at VIT Vellore. He undertook research on advanced welding processes since 2006. He received his Ph.D. from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, in 2010. He has received several fellowships and awards for his technical contributions from various government and private organizations. He has successfully completed numerous government-funded research projects and industrial consultancy tasks and has published more than 80 research papers in reputed international journals and conference proceedings. He has associations with top manufacturing industries and research and development centres under various capacities. His research interest mainly focuses on the interdisciplinary science underlying welding which includes the confluence of terminologies from electrical/mechanical/metallurgical materials and magnetic streams.
