A standardized single-lap shear brazed specimen was developed as the result of interlaboratory testing program. Additional test specimens have been added to obtain brazed strength data in butt tension, stress rupture, creep strength, and four-point bending. Specimen preparation methods, brazing procedures, testing techniques, and methods for data analysis are detailed. Sample forms for recording data are presented. A graphical method of data presentation relates shear stress to overlap distance.

Brazing processes offer enhanced control, adaptability and cost-efficiency in the joining of materials. Unsurprisingly, this has lead to great interest and investment in the area. Drawing on important research in the field, Advances in brazing provides a clear guide to the principles, materials, methods and key applications of brazing.Part one introduces the fundamentals of brazing, including molten metal wetting processes, strength and margins of safety of brazed joints, and modeling of associated physical phenomena. Part two goes on to consider specific materials, such as super alloys, filler metals for high temperature brazing, diamonds and cubic boron nitride, and varied ceramics and intermetallics. The brazing of carbon-carbon (C/C) composites to metals is also explored before applications of brazing and brazed materials are discussed in part three. Brazing of cutting materials, use of coating techniques, and metal-nonmetal brazing for electrical, packaging and structural applications are reviewed, along with fluxless brazing, the use of glasses and glass ceramics for high temperature applications and nickel-based filler metals for components in contact with drinking water.With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, Advances in brazing is a technical guide for any professionals requiring an understanding of brazing processes, and offers a deeper understanding of the subject to researchers and engineers within the field of joining. - Reviews the advances of brazing processes in joining materials - Discusses the fundamentals of brazing and considers specific materials, including super alloys, filler metals, ceramics and intermetallics - Brazing of cutting materials and structural applications are also discussed

Heat Exchangers: Mechanical Design, Materials Selection, Nondestructive Testing, and Manufacturing Methods, Third Edition covers mechanical design of pressure vessels and shell and tube heat exchangers, including bolted flange joint design, as well as selection of a wide spectrum of materials for heat exchanger construction, their physical properties, corrosion behavior, and fabrication methods like welding. Discussing the basics of quality control, the book includes ISO Standards for QMS, and references modern quality concepts such as Kaizen, TPM, and TQM. It presents Six Sigma and Lean tools, for heat exchangers manufacturing industries. The book explores heat exchanger manufacturing methods such as fabrication of shell and tube heat exchangers and brazing and soldering of compact heat exchangers. The book serves as a useful reference for researchers, graduate students, and engineers in the field of heat exchanger design, including pressure vessel manufacturers.

Despite the great advances in analytical methods available to structural engineers, designers of brazed structures have great difficulties in determining load-carrying capabilities of the brazed assemblies and predicting their failures. In this chapter we will review why such common engineering tools as finite element analysis (FEA) as well as many well-established theories (Tresca, von Mises, Highest Principal Stress, etc.) do not work well for brazed joints. This chapter will show how the classic approach of using interaction equations and the lesser-known Coulomb–Mohr failure criterion can be employed to estimate margins of safety (MS) in brazed joints.

This 2007 book comprehensively covers the theory, techniques and practice of all types of fiber OPAs and related devices.