Achievements through Welding

Abstract

Welding is a vital part of production technology distinguished from other production techniques by two features : it is far more widely used than almost any other production technology but is also much more difficult, troublesome and problematical than machining, forging, casting or extruding. The successful solution of welding problems as they occur, and which continues to stimulate new material and process development, has played a crucial part in modern technological and industrial achievement over an extremely wide field from electronics to shipbuilding power generation but-and this is possibly even more important, for the future-the solution of these problems have forced a gradual but irresistible revolution in fundamental concepts and ideas in the field of material development in design and in production.