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Course Catalog 1998/99


Materials and Manufacturing Eng

MPM004 Welding Metallurgy 7.5 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q I

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Bengt Loberg Univ lekt


PREREQUISITES


COURSE AIM
The course will give the student a general knowledge of the physical metallurgy of welding with a special emphasis on steel.

CONTENTS
-Overview of fusion-welding, focusing on conventional methods.
-Solutions to the heatconductivity equations for welding. Plane and linesource.
-Solubility of gases in melts and solid state. Mechanisms of solidification and microstructure formation as a result of different welding conditions.
-The effect of the thermal cycle on the heat affected base material. Grain coarsening, particle dissolution, solid-state transformations.
-Cracks and defects introduced by the weldning process.
-Solid-state welding and brazing.

TEACHING


EXAMINATION

COURSE GRADE SCALE:

ITEMS/CREDITS
Laboratory work 2.25ECTS
Written exam 5.25ECTS

COURSE LITTERATURE
Easterling K.E.: Introduction to the Physical Metallurgy of Welding

REMARKS


Valid for school year 1998/99.
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