WELDING AND JOINING processes are essential for the development of virtually every manufactured product. However, these processes often appear to consume greater fractions of the product cost and to create more of the production difficulties than might be expected. There are a number of reasons that explain this situation. | g M VOLUME WELDING BRAZING AND SOLDERING ASM INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION INFORMATION AND CONTRIBUTORS WELDING BRAZING AND SOLDERING WAS PUBLISHED IN 1993 AS VOLUME 6 OF THE ASM HANDBOOK. THE VOLUME WAS PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE ASM HANDBOOK COMMITTEE. VOLUME CHAIRMEN THE VOLUME CHAIRMEN WERE DAVID LEROY OLSON THOMAS A. SIEWERT STEPHEN LIU AND GLEN R. EDWARDS. AUTHORS RAFAEL MENEZES NUNES UFRGS BRUNO L. ALIA RICHARD L. ALLEY AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY WILLIAM R. APBLETT JR. WILLIAM A. BAESLACK III THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WILLIAM BALLIS COLUMBIA GAS OF OHIO CLIFF C. BAMPTON ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER PROBAL BANERJEE AUBURN UNIVERSITY JOHN G. BANKER EXPLOSIVE FABRICATORS INC. ROBERT G. BARTIFAY ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA ROY I. BATISTA ROY E. BEAL AMALGAMATED TECHNOLOGIES INC. RAYMOND E. BOHLMANN MCDONNELL AIRCRAFT COMPANY SÉRGIO D. BRANDI ESCOLA POLITECNICA DA USP JOHN A. BROOKS SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES DONALD W. BUCHOLZ IBM FEDERAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION PAUL BURGARDT EG G ROCKY FLATS PLANT ROGER A. BUSHEY THE ESAB GROUP INC. CHRIS CABLE FEIN POWER TOOL RICHARD D. CAMPBELL JOINING SERVICES INC. HOWARD CARY HOBART BROTHERS COMPANY HARVEY CASTNER EDISON WELDING INSTITUTE ALLEN CEDILOTE INDUSTRIAL TESTING LABORATORY SERVICES HARRY A. CHAMBERS TRW NELSON STUD WELDING C. CHRIS CHEN MICROALLOYING INTERNATIONAL INC. SHAOFENG CHEN AUBURN UNIVERSITY SHAO-PING CHEN LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY BRYAN A. CHIN AUBURN UNIVERSITY MICHAEL J. CIESLAK SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES RODGER E. COOK THE WILKINSON COMPANY STEPHEN A. COUGHLIN ACF INDUSTRIES INC. MARK COWELL METCAL INC. RICHARD S. CREMISIO RESCORP INTERNATIONAL INC. CARL E. CROSS CRAIG DALLAM THE LINCOLN ELECTRIC COMPANY BRIAN DAMKROGER SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES JOSEPH R. DAVIS DAVIS AND ASSOCIATES JANET DEVINE SONOBOND ULTRASONICS PAUL B. DICKERSON RAY DIXON LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY SUE DUNKERTON THE WELDING INSTITUTE KEVIN DUNN TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC. CHUCK DVORAK UNI-HYDRO INC. JIM DVORAK .
