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Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — June 2007

Friction stir welding and processing.

Ed. by Rajiv S. Mishra and Murray W. Mahoney.
ASM International, ©2007    360 p.    $199.00    TS228
978-0-87170-840-3

First applied to aluminum alloys about 15 years ago, friction stir welding/processing (FSW/P) has built up an impressive amount of data but until now that data has not been compiled into one set of detailed references. This accessible review of the state of the art describes a young technology but does so in depth, with 15 chapters covering friction stir tooling, temperature distribution and resulting metal flow, microstructure development in aluminum allow friction stir welds and the alloys' mechanical properties, friction stir welding of ferrous and nickel alloys, microstructure and mechanical properties of friction stir welded titanium and copper alloys, corrosion in welded aluminum alloys, process modeling, robots and machines for FSW/P, friction stir spot welding, application of welding to related technologies, friction stir processing and the future of FSW/P. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)