Crossland B. Explosive Welding of Metals and its Application

Oxford University Press, NY, USA, 1982. — 123 p. — (Oxford Series on Advanced Manufacturing 02) — ISBN: 0198591195.Welding of metals is normally associated in people's minds with fusion welding and in particular the various forms of electric welding and gas welding. Probably the first joining process to be used in man's development was that of soldering or brazing, in which a third lower melting point metal is used to joint two metals with a higher melting point. However, the main welding processes which have been used in the last three or four millenniums, such as cold pressure welding of soft metals or forge welding of wrought iron, are solid phase processes.During this century other solid phase welding processes have been discovered such as friction welding, ultrasonic welding and diffusion bonding. The most recent process discovered has been that of explosive welding, which though it was noted as a scientific curiosity was not thought of as being a potential commercial process until the late nineteen fifties.The mechanism of explosive welding.
Explosives and their properties.
Interaction between explosives and the workpiece.
Explosive welding parameters.
Flat plate cladding.
Welding of cylindrical surfaces.
Other applications of explosive welding.
Metallurgy of explosive welding Bibliography.