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Welding
Design - The ultimate goal of welding design is, to join the structural or mechanical parts within the prescribed conditions and constraints without any adverse residual effects from the welding process. The comprehensive design concept covers almost all engineering principles and can be presented in the following ways.
Welding Design in a Broad Sense
This concept refers to a procedure that starts with material selection and continues through several steps including process selection, joint design, weld size determination, welding fabrication, nondestructive evaluation and economic analysis and creates a welded structure or machine.
The four areas in welding engineering welding process and control, welding metallurgy, welding design and non destructive evaluation represent the view of welding design in a broad sense.






