The Welding Engineer s Guide to Fracture and Fatigue 1st Edition by Philippa L Moore, Geoff Booth ISBN 1782423702 978-1782423706

Welding engineering is a discipline that many engineers find themselves moving into only once they begin to specialise within their career, because it is not a common area to study at college or university. Some begin as welders but later wish to acquire the knowledge to become welding supervisors, welding inspectors or welding engineers. Others are tempted to consider a career change by the potential opportunities offered by welding engineering, or simply by curiosity of this broad and industrially significant subject. Whatever the reason that has caused you to begin to read this book, we hope to inform and enlighten you into some of the aspects of fracture and fatigue that must be understood in order to become a welding engineer.

No prior knowledge of the subjects of fracture and fatigue is assumed and the concepts are explained from first principles. Unless absolutely necessary, we avoid using mathematical formulae to explain concepts as much as possible. We hope that to learn more about fracture or fatigue as subjects in their own rights you use the lists of further reading given at the end of each chapter. Both fracture and fatigue are fields where there are many academic textbooks and large amounts of ongoing research. However, this book is for welding engineers, and we have selected those parts of these topics which relate specifically to welds, and are valuable for a welding engineer, particularly in their discussions with fatigue designers or fracture mechanics experts. Part One covers the basic principles and includes descriptions of typical welding defects and how these defects behave in structures under static and cyclic loading, potentially leading to premature failure. Part Two then provides guidance on how to avoid such failures, through selection of appropriate materials, welding procedures and inspection regimes for the intended service conditions. The technical content is relevant to all welded engineering structures, including pipelines, fixed and floating offshore platforms, bridges, buildings, ships, pressure vessels and off highway vehicles. Each chapter may be read independently, and gives references to other chapters when further relevant information is found in other parts of the book.