Welding and cutting '90

The lectures in the proceedings in hand reflect novel and well-proven data and experience from technology, metallurgy, design, and quality assurance. The reader will find a survey of current welding practice in 44 papers presented in twelve conference sessions. In the field of technology, particular emphasis is put on reproducible, economically efficient and mechanizable inert gas welding techniques. Some papers show this by reporting well-proven applications from energy system construction, vehicle construction, or pipework construction. The increasing significance of quality assurance measures contributed by preventive strategies of the manufacturers is expressed in some papers of the conference session on 'Applications'. The activities of the European Committee of Standardization, Technical Commission TC 21 (Welding) are reported. There are five papers showing the usefulness of investigations of the fracture mechanical behavior of materials. (orig.)