Welding Skills
Comprehensive Coverage of The Major Welding Processes with Additional Advanced Welding Information and Welding Proficiency Test Requirements

Welding Skills provides comprehensive coverage of major welding processes, as well as advanced welding process information, welder proficiency test requirements, and metal identification. Current welding processes and American Welding Society (AWS) terminology are detailed throughout the text. All content is clearly presented in a heavily-illustrated format for easy comprehension.

The third edition features many new topics, including new chapters on repair welding, metallography, weld discontinuities, weldability of metals, distortion control, and materials and fabrication standards and codes. Additionally, a separate chapter addresses welding safety. The new edition also features expanded coverage of the latest welding equipment, procedures, and materials and Gas Metal Arc Welding, Gas Tungsten Arc Welding, and Flux Cored Arc Welding.

Each text contains a CD-ROM designed as a self-study aid to enhance book content. It includes interactive chapter Quick Quizzes™, an Illustrated Glossary, Media Clips, Welding Resources, and Reference Material.

Forty-five chapters organized into eight sections including:

• Introduction to Welding 
• Oxyacetylene Welding – OAW
• Shielded Metal Arc Welding – SMAW
• Gas Tungsten Arc Welding – GTAW
• Gas Metal Arc Welding– GMAW
• Other Welding Processes
• Weld Evaluation and Testing
• Welding Technology
• Appendix
• Glossary
• Index