Mid December Bulletin

Engineering Design for Welding, Brazing, Soldering, Adhesive-, Mechanical-Joining and more...

PWL#040B
14 December 2006

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Online Resources (8)

Our eighth installment of pertinent Resources available Online deals with the subject of Engineering Design for Welding, Brazing, Soldering, Adhesive- and Mechanical-Joining.

While not replacing a complete Course on this complex subject, the References proposed here may help finding an answer needed in a hurry.

Our Website displays a page on Welding Design

Should anyone wish to devote him/her/self to a more thorough study, a few recommended reference books to be bought online are indicated in the above Webpage.

An article of ours, titled
"Design for Welding: Letter to an Engineer"
is available: Copy and Paste the following line in a browser and Enter
www.thefabricator.com/ShopManagement/ShopManagement_Article.cfm?ID=1062

References

Welding - Design, Procedures and Inspection (129 pages) 2000
http://www.hnd.usace.army.mil/techinfo/ti/809-26/TI809-26.pdf

Design Considerations
http://www.machinedesign.com/BDE/FASTENING/bdefj2/bdefj2_5.html

Process Considerations
http://www.machinedesign.com/BDE/FASTENING/bdefj2/bdefj2_6.html

Design For Assembly
http://www.machinedesign.com/BDE/FASTENING/bdefj2/bdefj2_7.html

A page with links to Welding Calculations is available at
http://www.gowelding.com/calcs/
Other useful links can be found by browsing this site.

Weld Process and Joint Design
http://www.engineersedge.com/weld_design_menu.shtml

Design and Performance of Aluminum Joints
http://www.afsa.org.za/welding-corner/al-welding-explained-june-2006.pdf

Joint Design and Preparation of Metals
http://www.mydiscounttools.com/estore/articles/welding/WeldingJOINTS.html

Design of Brazed Joints
http://www.brazetec.com/brazetec/content_en/pdf/design_brazed_joints.pdf

Solder Joint Design Information
http://www.engineersedge.com/solder_design_menu.shtml

Weld Design Change for Fatigue Enhancement (14 pages)
http://www.appliedultrasonics.com/pdf/pdf4.pdf

NASA Fastener Design Manual (96 pages)
http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/GLTRS/browse.pl?1990/RP-1228.html

Guide to Design Criteria for Bolted and Riveted Joints (352 pages)
http://www.boltcouncil.org/guide1.htm

Fastening Applications
http://www.machinedesign.com/BDE/FASTENING/bdefj3/bdefj3_29.html

Joining Composites
http://www.machinedesign.com/BDE/FASTENING/bdefj1/bdefj1_6.html

Adhesive Design Toolkit
http://www.npl.co.uk/performance/f10.html

Centre for Innovation and Technical Application
http://corporate.coventry.ac.uk/cms/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1001&a=11825

An Adhesive Pad – without Adhesives
http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article/index.aspx?articleid=qTN5PISHPmPCjj1Ghz7_HWWwDElij9J9tNbD9CzGalgA

Pressure Sensitive Adhesive Tapes
http://www.appliancedesign.com/CDA/Articles/ Feature_Article/2fbe9ad7e40cc010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0____

Adhesive Joints - Design and Calculations (9 pages)
http://www.eaa.net/education/TALAT/lectures/4703.pdf

A few essential books on Design for Welding can be purchased at a nominal price from The Lincoln Electric Company at
https://ssl.lincolnelectric.com/lincoln/apdirect/store.asp?PID=16&cat=8
In particular we would recommend:
Design of Welded Structures
Design of Weldments
Solutions to Design of Weldments

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