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Manual of Engineering Drawing, 3rd Edition
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Manual of Engineering Drawing, 3rd Edition

by Colin H. Simmons, Dennis E. Maguire
March 2009
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
15h 31m
English
Butterworth-Heinemann
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Chapter Welding and welding symbols

In general, welding may be described as a process of uniting two pieces of metal or alloy by raising the temperature of the surfaces to be joined so that they become plastic or molten. This may be done with or without the application of pressure and with or without the use of added metal. This definition excludes the more recently developed method of cold-welding, in which pressure alone is used. Cold-welding, however, has a limited application, and is used principally for aluminium and its alloys, and not for steel.

There are numerous methods of welding, but they can be grouped broadly into two categories. Forge welding is the term covering a group of welding processes in which the parts to be joined are ...

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