Roger Timings. Fabrication and welding engineering

UK, Oxford, 2008. — 596 p.This book is designed to provide an accessible course in the basic sheet-metal fabrication and welding engineering principles and applications required in a wide range of vocational courses. No prior knowledge of sheet-metal fabrication and welding is assumed.
I trust that Fabrication and Welding Engineering will be found to be a worthy complement to my previous books on the fundamentals of general and mechanical engineering. As well as offering up-to-date best practice and technical information, this new title has been fully matched to the latest courses, in particular Level 2 NVQs in Performing Engineering Operations from EAL and the City & Guilds.
Guidance on the depth of treatment has been taken from the SEMTA National Occupational Standards on which all NVQs are based. The book is especially useful for trainees who are involved in a SEMTA Apprenticeship in Engineering.
All of the chapters end with a selection of exercises. These will help with assessing the trainees’ performance criteria for the underpinning knowledge and understanding that is an essential part of their training. The book ends with an Appendix of useful websites on the more advanced aspects of welding and profi le cutting involving: plasma arc welding; electron beam welding; laser welding and cutting and automated (robotic) welding and cutting (CNC).
I also wish to pay tribute to the late Mr F.J.M. Smith who collaborated with me on matters of sheet-metal working and welding where this topic area occurred in my previous books. I have drawn heavily on his expertise in this current book.
Finally, the author and publishers are grateful to SEMTA, Pearson Educational Ltd for allowing me to quote extensively from F.J.M. Smith’s book Fundamentals of Fabrication and Welding Engineering , Henkel Loctite, Tucker Fasteners Ltd and all the other companies and organizations listed under acknowledgements for allowing the reproduction and adaptation of their illustrations and material in this text.