Joining of Advanced Materials

Provides an unusually complete and readable compilation of the primary and secondary options for joining conventional materials in non-conventional ways. Provides unique coverage of adhesive bonding using both organic and inorganic adhesives, cements and mortars. Focuses on materials issues without ignoring issues related to joint design, production processing, quality assurance, process economics, and joining performance in service. Joining of advanced materials is a unique treatment of joining of both conventional and advanced metals andalloys, intermetallics, ceramics, glasses, polymers, and composites with polymeric, metallic, ceramic, intermetallic and carbon matrices in similar and dissimilar combinations. Suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in engineering in addition to practicing engineers, this book treats in detail mechanical joining with conventional and advanced fasteners or integral design features, adhesive bonding, fusion and non-fusion welding, brazing, soldering, thermal spraying, and synergistic combinations of weld-bonding, weld-brazing, rivet-bonding. In addition, the book addresses materials issues, joint design, production processing, quality assurance, process economics, and joint performance in service Content: Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv Preface , Pages xix-xxi 1 - Introduction to Joining , Pages 3-24 2 - Mechanical Fastening , Pages 25-61 3 - Mechanical Fasteners and Joining Methods , Pages 63-106 4 - Adhesive Bonding , Pages 107-141 5 - Adhesives and the Bonding Process , Pages 143-180 6 - Welding as a Joining Process , Pages 181-234 7 - The Metallurgy of Welding , Pages 235-281 8 - Brazing , Pages 283-312 9 - Soldering , Pages 313-363 10 - Other Joining Processes , Pages 365-386 11 - Joining Advanced Metals, Alloys, and Intermetallics , Pages 389-429 12 - Joining of Ceramics and of Glasses , Pages 431-456 13 - Joining of Polymers , Pages 457-475 14 - Joining Composite Materials , Pages 477-507 15 - Joining Dissimilar Material Combinations , Pages 509-538 Index , Pages 539-553 Provides a compilation of the primary and secondary options for joining conventional materials in non-conventional ways and advanced materials in conventional and novel ways. The book also provides coverage of adhesive bonding using both organic and inorganic adhesives, cements and mortars.