PRACTICAL WELDING METALLURGY: Microstructure, Heat Treatment, and Failure Prevention for Engineers, Inspectors, and Fabricators
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- PRACTICAL WELDING METALLURGY: Microstructure, Heat Treatment, and Failure Prevention for Engineers, Inspectors, and Fabricators
- Author
- WHITMORE, GRAHAM R.
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798177481319
Many skilled practitioners are trained thoroughly in welding processes and equipment, yet receive little grounding in why the same procedure produces a sound weld in one steel and a brittle one in another. That gap is where costly cracking, distortion, and in-service failures begin — and where guesswork quietly replaces judgment. This book closes it, explaining what happens to metal during and after welding and how to control it, so defects are prevented rather than discovered later.
Inside this practical guide, you will learn how to:
- Understand why a weld cracks, hardens, or loses toughness, and how heat input, cooling rate, and composition drive the result.
- Predict and control the microstructure of the fusion zone and the heat-affected zone.
- Recognize and prevent hydrogen (cold), solidification, and liquation cracking.
- Manage residual stress and distortion instead of correcting them after the fact.
- Work through fully worked calculations for carbon equivalent, cooling time, dilution, and weld-metal composition.
- Judge weldability across steels, stainless steels, and nonferrous alloys, and select filler metals with confidence.
Key topics include metallic structure and phase behavior, weld-pool solidification, the weld thermal cycle and heat-affected zone, transformation diagrams, heat-input and cooling-rate control, residual stress and distortion, hydrogen and hot cracking, weldability and procedure development for carbon and low-alloy steels, stainless and nonferrous welding metallurgy, filler metals and dilution, postweld heat treatment, and weld defects, failure analysis, and quality assurance.
It is written for engineers who develop and qualify welding procedures, inspectors and quality personnel who must judge whether a weld is fit for service, fabricators who make quality decisions at the bench, and materials, reliability, and student readers connecting the science of metals to the practice of joining them
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Build the metallurgical understanding that makes procedures rational and failures preventable. Open this guide and start diagnosing welds by cause, not by guesswork.
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