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Welding and joining techniques.

F A Chipperfield·S B Dunkerton
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There is a welding solution for most applications. As products must meet more stringent requirements or require more flexible processes to aid design or reduce cost, further improvements or totally new processes are likely to be developed. Quality control aspects are also becoming more important to meet regulation, and monitoring and control of welding processes and the standardised testing of joints will meet some if not all of these requirements.

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F A Chipperfield, S B Dunkerton. 2001. Welding and joining techniques.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11521652/

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